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Show Vanishing Point of the American Family. In 1870 the per cent of all marriages mar-riages terminated by divorce was 3.5; in 1880, 4.8 per cent; in 1886, 6.2 per cent, while now It seems probable that approximately 10 per cent of all marriages in the United States are terminated by divorce. Professor Willcox, of Cornell, has calculated that, should the present rate of increase in-crease of divorce in the United States continue, by 1950 one-fourth of all marriages will be terminated by divorce, di-vorce, and by 1990 one-half. Charles A. Ellwood, in the February Delineator. |