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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 4, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 27.

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American Divorces

The Lutheran for June 6, 1912, is responsible for the following figures with reference to divorces in the United States as compared with the countries of the old world:—
There is a worm at the root of our tree—the tree of our American home life. We need to know just where it is and what it is doing. It is eating the life out of that first and greatest institution of God—the home. That worm is our divorce record. This record should make us Americans blush crimson with shame; for it places us in a class with heathen Japan, and separates us from all the so-called Christian nations. Here it is: In five years Japan had 93,949 divorces, or 215 to every 100,000 of the population. In the United States we had in the same period 55,502, or 73 to every 100,000 of the population. In the same time in Germany there were 8,680, or 15 to 100,000 population; in France, 8,864, or 23 to 100,000; in Italy, 810, or 3 to 100,000; in Norway, 120, or 6 to 100,000; in Sweden, 390, or 8 to every 100,000.