Divorce in Massachusetts

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1904

Divorce in Massachusetts.

The Springfield Republican is authority for the statement that the divorce evil has grown steadily in the Old Bay State since 1871-2. In that year there was one divorce to 48 marriages. The next ten years the ratio fluctuated between the extremes of 1 to 41 and 1 to 21. The average for the next ten years was 1 to 30. In 1894 it was 1 to less than 20, and averaged about that to 1900. Since that the ratio has increased, till it is now about 1 to 17. In thirty years it has increased from 1 divorce to 48 marriages to 1 divorce to 17 marriages. And divorce laws in Massachusetts are among the strictest. These facts present a striking evidence of the down grade of society.