EQUALITY IN DIVORCES
WOMEN’S CASES EXCEED MEN’S EFFECT OF NEW ENGLISH LAW’. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Oct. 1. , The effect of the law which has given women equality in cause for divorce has been revealed by the new law term. Of 780 petitions the women’s applications exceed those of men by two to one. The average total throughout England is between 4000 and 5000 annually. The outstanding facts in the statistics are that the large majority of divorces follow after ten years. In more than • half the cases the parties are childless.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1930, Page 9
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