Danger Years Of Marriage

NZ Truth, 15 March 1924, Page 1

Danger Years Of Marriage

As a corrollary to the above there are some most illuminating facts to bo culled from the statistical returns for r England and Wales, as to the years • which are the most dangerous m mari rled life — a subject treated by many j dramatists such as Sir Arthur Pinero I In "Mid-channel" and' innumerable t novelists. The period wliere tho r mutual attraction of married couples t seems at its lowest — that is the period ■ when they may be said to have drifted r furthest apart— is from ten to twenty t years after marriage. In 1922 to which 3 the figures under review apply there , were 2468 divorce suits begun and no * less than 930 of them concerned cou- ' pies who had been married over ten 1 years and under twenty years. The • next most dangerous period was the ; five to ten years married life with 757 » divorces, and the third, the two to five * year period with 403. The number of 1 children to a marriage also Booms to l havo a distinct relationship to the 3 divorce "Impulse" so to speak. Nearly J half the divorces ln 1922— t0 tho num--1 ber of 1033 that Is — were betweon cou--0 pies with no children, 728 between 1 couples with one child, 392 with two '» children, 304 with three to six children, 1 and only 11 couples with over six v children. a '