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California’s Divorce Record

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Feb 13, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 7.

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California’s Divorce Record

THE CALIFORNIA RECORD ON THE DIVORCE QUESTION for a year is said to be 1,266 cases of divorces granted. Seventy per cent. of the women were plaintiffs; infidelity, failure to provide, cruelty, and intemperance were the dominant causes. In all this number there were only 817 minor children to be found, and in all these cases it is said that only a dozen did not contain the mention of drunkenness as a cause of separation. A San Francisco paper states in its issue of January 24 that Judge Ellsworth, of Oakland, signed eleven decrees of divorce the day before. Looseness of the marriage relation is one of the signs of the last days.