BREAK UP OF FAMILIES
-OB— ■ Divorces in England REMARKABLE INCREASE. (Rec. 6.50). LONDON, October 6. Divorces in England are increasing steadily, says the “Daily Mail.. Five judges will next week Degm the hearing of two thousand London applications for divorce. Tms total compares with 797 applications in the Michaelmas term last year. The Assizes throughout the country will have a further five thousand applications for divorce during the present term. • The evacuations of population, the shelter life, and also war-time disorganisation of the people have partly comprised reasons for the increase in divorces. The courts during the first year of the war dealt with 8400 divorce petitions. The monthly average of cases dropped from September, 1940, to last March. Probably the drop was owing to the bombings. But the increase of the evacuations, and the calling up both of wives and husbands for service have now broken many happy families.
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Grey River Argus, 8 October 1941, Page 2
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