DIVORCE IN BRITAIN
ALAKMING INCREASE EFFECT OF NEW ACT Australian Press Association. (Received 17th September, S a.m.) LONDON, 15th Sept. The list of Miehelma3 divorces shows i that the cases in 1928 excoed 5400. Divorce suits have almost doubled since the new Act censoring the publication jof details was passed in 1926, when there were 2973 cases in the year. Women petitioners outnumber men by two to one. Divorce- lawyers attribute the alarming increase to the fact that prior to 1926 women preferred to suffer anything rather than face publicity in the newspapers, but the increase is also duo to many-young married women who do not attempt to make the best of their married lives, quaxrel with their husbands over the most trivial matters, and are even ready to be ! the legally guilty party, as friends I need never know the facts. Most cases are undefended and occupy ten minutes in tho High Court or eighteen in the Assize- Courts throughout.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 9
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161DIVORCE IN BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 9
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