Bingham Bulletin | 1951-05-11 | Page 2 | 1950 Marriage Rate Climb 6 per Cent

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 1950 Marriage Rate Climbs 6 Per Cent The U.S. public health service reported re-ported recently the marriage rate rose and the divorce rate dropped in the United States during the past year. The agency'a figures show the number of 1950 marriages 1,669,934 In all rose nearly 6 per cent over 1949, the first increase since 1946. The total of 1950 divorces estimated esti-mated at 383,000 wag the smallest since 1943. The drop was 3 per cent from the preceding year and marked the fourth successive, year of declines. The agency gave no explanation ex-planation for the increase in marriages mar-riages or decrease of divorces. Statisticians calculated that 11 out of every 1,000 men, women and children chil-dren in the nation got married last year. Only 2V of each 1,000 found it did not work out