Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — GroWth of Drvorce. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GroWth of Drvorce.

In 1870 3% per cent of all marriages in the United States ended in divorce courts. In 1881 the percentage had

risen to 4.8. In 1890 it was 6.2, and in 1900 it was 8 per cent. In other words, the percentage of divorces to marriages in this country has more than doubled since 1870. The total number of divorces in the United States for a given year was

23,427. During the same year 20,111 divorces were granted in all ths world outside of the United States. There was an excess of 3,361 divorces in this country as compared with ths remainder of the world. Of foreign countries the smallest number of divorces in the given year was In Canada, where only twelve were granted. Next to the United States the largest number was in France, with 6,245 in the year. Germany was a close second with only 100 leas. More than 40 per cent of all divorces granted in the United States is on the ground of desertion, and divorces are five times as frequent in the city a m in the country districts.