Massachusetts Divorce Scandal Rising Rapidly

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 25, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 13

Massachusetts Divorce Scandal Rising Rapidly

—The Boston Watchman is responsible for the statement—and what is worse, proves it—that “Massachusetts is rapidly moving to the bad eminence once occupied by Indiana, in the scandal of her divorce legislation.” There are nine different pretexts, it says, under which in that State a lawful marriage bond may be loosed. The Massachusetts Supreme Court during the past nineteen years has decreed seven thousand two hundred and thirty-three divorces. The divorces now number six hundred in a year, two for every secular day!