CURIOSITIES OF DIVORCE.
. ■ _'. p-—. —l BULK -OF CASES WHERE MARRIAGES' WERE CHILDLESS. Sir John MaedoucH's report on the British Civil Judicial Statistics of 1906, just issued, shows ii general'increase in the number or divorce cases. He has analysed the marriages that led to divorce, and> brings out a number of curious results.' : Most of the divorces of the ten years up, to 1906 (3606 out of 8i"80, or 41' per cent.) wero of marriages that had lasted from ten to twenty years. Next most numerous, 30 per cent., wero marriages' or from five to ten years; then came marriages over twenty yeara and from two to five years, with 12 per cc-nt, each. Of the wives divorced 2S per cent, were ■under twenty-one when married. . A striking tablo shows that the great hulk of divorces occur-'in childless luam-' ages: Divorces. Per
Perhaps owing to tho expense, divorce po< titioiiors for the most part belong to. tho middle'classes. IJnt while only 6 per cent, of the male population p-a in professional employment, 24 per cent. of the ; husbands • divorced came from that dlnss. Fifteen per cent of the population arc in trade, which supplied 31 per cent, of divorces.
Children. 1906.. 1S97-190G. ■ cent. Nono ... 362 3!03 39. Ono ... 247 2104 . 24 . Two ... ]o3 1407 • 16 . Tlirps to six ' 140 1G10 18 Above six... 21 178 2
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 223, 13 June 1908, Page 10
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