Note 776 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

See Bertillon, Note pour l'étude statistique du divorce, 464 ff., 471-73, giving Berlin statistics for 1878 which show that divorced men remarry within the first three years at about the same rate as widowers, while divorced women remarry more rapidly than widows. The results obtained from Swiss statistics are nearly the same: see the table in Bertillon, "Du sort des divorcés," Jour. de la société de statistique de Paris, June, 1884; reproduced by Willcox, The Divorce Problem, 27. On the other hand, Oettingen, Die Moralstatistik, 153-62, on the basis of statistics for Saxony (1834-49) and the Netherlands (1850-54), shows a strong tendency to remarry on the part of divorced persons of either sex, as compared with widows and widowers, the divorced women remarrying much more frequently than the men. Dike, Rep. of the Nat. Div. Ref. League (1891), 18, gives some facts for Connecticut. In 1889, 286 divorced persons were married, "135 men and 151 women, which is a little above one-third of the number divorced in the year. In 1890 there were 477 divorces granted, or 954 individuals divorced: and there were 350 divorced persons"—143 men and 207 women—"who married again." To be of much value these figures should be compared with the number of marriages of widowers and widows for the same period.