DIVORCES BY WIVES
Increase In Algeria (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) ALGIERS, Feb. 3. Marriages dissolved at the request of wives in Moslem Algeria have doubled since 1964, according to the weekly, "Revolution Africaine.” Women were granted the right to apply for divorce under a 1959 law which also banned arbitrary marriage repudiation by husbands. More than 30 suits are filed daily in Algiers, which has a population of one million, and more and more are by wives. Divorces are more frequent in towns and among young people, “Revolution Africaine” says. There are 142,000 divorcees among 4,363,000 married men and women in the country. The Algerian war of independence, social differences between man and wife, and the misplaced image of emancipation are at the base of most divorces. After the eight-year war, the weekly says, women outnumbered men, and in many cases girls were hurriedly married off by fathers afraid that they would not find husbands.
A great number of these alliances, often between older men and young girls, broke up. Other marriages fail because of too great a gap in upbringing. Women’s education was neglected for a long time in Algeria.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31595, 5 February 1968, Page 2
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