Note 780 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (continued 2)

The uniform divorce law for the Swiss cantons, which went into effect in 1876, has not tended to produce a uniform rate. In 1885, for instance, Appenzell, Outer Rhodes, "has forty-nine times as much divorce as Unterwalden o. d. W., while with all the divergences of law in this country the differences of rate are much less."—Willcox, The Divorce Problem, 59, giving a table of the decrees granted in the twenty-six cantons, 1876-85; compiled from Die Bewegung der Bevölkerung in der Schweiz im Jahre 1885 (Beilage I).