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Show AMERICAN HOME MORE SECURE, IT IS LEARNED The American home is more stable t than ever before, no ma.er what pessimists say. This is the conclusion conclu-sion of the Human Betterment foun-daton, foun-daton, which has been studying the figures of broken homes. ! While the number of divorces has ; increased from year to year, the num-:ber num-:ber of marriages has also increased, it points out. The number of happy ' homes, in proportion to the total, is ! just about the same from year to year. Those who think that the per-, per-, centage of divorces is steadily in-'. in-'. creasing are declared to have fallen I into a statistical fallacy, j The economic difficulties since 1029 have brought about a large decrease in divorces, the report continues, but j there is another important change. Formerly the largest number of di-I di-I vorces was two or three years after ! marriage. Now it is 10 to 25 years ! after marriage. The Foundation be- lieves that the marriages of the last ;10 or 15 years have been made more intelligently and with better preparation pre-paration than formerly, and that they are more durable than pre-war marriages. mar-riages. "The fisrures demand an optimistic view," the Foundation's report concludes. con-cludes. "Far from being on the verge of break-up and disappearance, the American family is probably getting tronger each year." |
