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Divorce in New England

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 35.

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Divorce in New England

THE New York Christian at Work says it is a startling fact that in New England to-day "marriage can be set aside for so many causes that it has practically ceased to exist, except as parties involved may desire." In four New England States, it is said, the reports show that the marital relations have been severed between 40,000 persons during the last twenty years, and divorces are nearly twice as numerous now as they were in 1860. The laws allowing divorce for so many causes (eight in Massachusetts) are arraigned on the ground of public morality, and as practically reducing the marriage state to that of a "legalized concubinage."