MANY GIRLS DO NOT TRY TO GET THE BEST OUT OF MARRIED LIFE
TRIVIAL QUARRELS KEEP COURTS BUSY f Australian !»ress Assn. ] Received September 17, 1 am. LONDON. Sept. .16. The list of Michaelmas divorces shows that cases for. 1928. exceed 5400, having almost doubled since the new Act censoring the publication of details was passed in 1926, when there were 2973 cases. Women petitioners outnumber men two to one. Divorce lawyers attribute the alarming increase to the fact that prior to 1926 women preferred to suffer anything before face publicity in the newspapers, but the increase is also due to the fact that many young women do not attempt to make thu best of married-life .nd quarrel with their husbands on the most trivial matters. Some are even ready to be the legally guilty party, relying on the fact that their friends need never know the story. Most of the cases arc not defended, an«i occupy only 10 minutes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 220, 17 September 1928, Page 8
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160MANY GIRLS DO NOT TRY TO GET THE BEST OUT OF MARRIED LIFE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 220, 17 September 1928, Page 8
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