Show STATES STATE'S MARRIAGE RATE SETS UPWARD Contrary to a n. generally existing existing existing exist exist- ing opinion Utah's marriage rate rato has tended to increase slightly Dr Owen F. F Beal professor proCessor of so- so at the University of oC Utah has pointed out in a page book on A Legislative and Statistical Study of Marriage and Divorce in Utah There were more snore married persons pcr- pcr sons in proportion to the population population population tion 15 years ago and over in 1930 than in any of ot the previous decades for which we have figurea figures figures fig fig- ures urea Dr Beals Beal's report asserts A little more than three fifths of the population 15 years of age and andover andover andover over are arc married The divorce rate however Dr Beal wrote has jumped from one ono divorce to every marriages in 1887 to one divorce in every 56 marriage in 1930 Three-fourths Three of or the divorces are granted to the wife with failure to provide cruelty cruelty cruelty cruel cruel- ty and desertion as the three principal principal principal prin prin- cipal grounds Dr Beal urges several changes in Utah marriage laws declaring more interest should be shown in improving marriage laws than thanin thanin thanin in improving divorce laws A minimum age ago marriage limit of or 16 years for or females and 18 years for males requirement of or a a. health certificate and advance notice of intention to wed are among changes suggested by Dr Beat BeaL |