Note 757 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
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Dike, in Rep. of Nat. League for Protection of the Family (1901), 6, 11. But in 1902, for the state, the ratio was 1 divorce to 7.6 marriages; ibid. (1903), 10.
In 1896 the number of marriages celebrated to one divorce granted was 19.2 in Massachusetts, 15.7 in Vermont, 14.9 in Connecticut, 9.2 in Rhode Island, and only 8.3 in Maine. In 1901 the ratio in Rhode Island had fallen to 8.2; while it had risen in Connecticut to 15.8 and in Massachusetts to 20.2: Registration Report (Me., 1896), 91; ibid. (Vt., 1896), 96; Dike in Report (1901), 11. In 1902 the number of marriages to one divorce was sixteen in Massachusetts; 8.4 in Rhode Island; 10 in Vermont; and only about six in Maine; while in 1901 it was 8.3 in New Hampshire: Dike, op. cit. (1903), 9, 10.