Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — one Out of Seven Divorced. [ARTICLE]

one Out of Seven Divorced.

Commissioner of Labor Stafford of California has just published statistics for the last fiscal year, which show that there w«*re 2,133 divorces during the year wnd 17.932 marriages in that Ftate. Of the divorce actions, 586 were brought by husbands and 1.045 by wives. A total of 484 were married less than five years. 7!M» from live to ten years and C>4!» from ten to twenty years, nnd 294 more than twenty years. The ratio of the divorced was one out of seven marriages, and 1.536 children were affected by the separation of thrir parents.