DIVORCES
RECORD LAST YEAR. THE AGE OF THE WIFE. AN IMPORTANT FACTOR. BY tulegraph —SPECIAL to THE STAR. WELLINGTON, April 4. Though the number of divorce petitions filed last year has previously been exceeded, the total (739) has- not been passed for several years, while the number of decrees made absolute (614) is, according to the Government Statistician, a record for the Dominion two in excess of the year 1925, and 88 in excess of the previous highest,. in the year 1924. There were 335 petitions by husbands and 404 by wives. Analysing the causes for divorce, the Statistician suggests that the mere age of the bride is a much more important factor than the disparities between the ages of husband and wife; and, further, that even a comparatively wide disparity, if the husband is the senior, is of less effect- than is the case when the wife is senior by perhaps only two or three years. Of divorces in 3.926, there were 59 per cent where the wife was under 23 years of age, while the number of brides under 23 last year was 38 per cent of the total marriages.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 April 1927, Page 5
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