Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — FIGURES ON DIVORCE. [ARTICLE]

FIGURES ON DIVORCE.

Census Shows Five Out of 1,000 Men Married Are Now Living Single. Divorces in the United States are on the increase in number, according to figures presented by the census bureau. The latest show that five out of every 1,000 men married are living in a state of divorce. The census returns disprove the theory that early marriage leads oftenest to divorce. A note of warning is also sounded to women who persist in marrying men of the roving class, who enter on matrimony late in life, and, for the guidance of those who ought to know, it is figured out in cold and passionless statistics of just what classes of. employment men are most frequently seen in the divorce courts. Fickle above all men in their marriage relations are soldiers, sailors and marines. Twenty-four of them out of every 1,000 married become divorced. Next to them in inconstancy are hostlers. Then follow actors and professional showmen. On further analysis the census bureau found that most of the occupations given contain a high percentage of bachelors. Statistics show that in nine of the fifteen occupations in this list the tendency to defer marriage is exceptionally strong. It is shown that in a long list of occupations groups in which there are not more than three divorces to 1,000 marriages, the tendency is toward early mat» rimony. It is shown that the number of married women in gainful occupations is steadily growing.— In 1890 4.6 per cent of all the married women of the country were thus employed. In 1900 this percentage had increased to 5.6. It is also shown that the percentage of single women in gainful occupations has declined since 1890, while that of married, widowed and divorced, in each case, has increased.