BRITISH MARRIAGE STATISTICS
10,600 FEWER DIVORCE PLEAS IN YEAR
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 13. The “Daily Herald” says that each year 10,000 more British marriages are now succeeding, and the rush to the divorce courts is ending. This was officially announced last night by a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Department. "The rising trend of unbroken marriages has been held for the last 18 months,” said the official. "In the divorqe courts up to the end of last year, figures which we have just compiled show that 38,157 persons sought C etitions, or 10,615 fewer than a year efore.”
The chief reason suggested for the fall in the number of divorces is that the war-time tendency to marry in haste has been checked.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25934, 14 October 1949, Page 7
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