PEIPING DIVORCE SUITS.
NINETY PER CENT BY WOMEN.
More than 800 suits for divorce were filed in the Peiping district courts during 1930, and 90 per cent of them were instituted by women. Canton reported nearly 200 divorces during the same period, while Shanghai averages about eighty divorce suits a month.
The striking thing about these statistics, according to accounts in the native Press, is that only a small proportion of unsatisfactory marriages reaches the law courts,, for the Government is still indifferent to what it regards as a family affair. Thousands of coolies are married and divorced without public record of cither event.
Divorces are much more common, therefore, than the figures alone would indicate. Many Chinese observers declare that the situation is far more critical than all the other woes of this troubled country.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 20
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