Divorce Statistics in California
State Labor Commissioner McLaughlin has just issued his fifteenth biennial report for California. It is devoted in part to social statistics, and shows that there is one divorce in the state to every seven marriages. Six years ago there was one divorce to every ten marriages. If this increase is kept up it will soon be that the marriage institution is nullified altogether. In the last year that his report covers it is shown that more than half the divorces were granted to people who had no children. More than seventy per cent of the complaints that led to final decrees of divorce were made by wives, the cause of wilful desertion being assigned in most instances. One very cheering feature of the report is that the counties of Mono and Alpine have had no divorces.