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From: wed@drutx.UUCP (DeibertWE)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Divorce Rate
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 13:53:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 13:53:27 1985
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> ...By the way,  I can't tell from your :-| if you know or not, but
> the divorce rate IS pretty high.  I don't remember a percentage
> (anybody have a recent figure, even though I probably don't want
> to hear it anyway?)

If I remember correctly from browsing through a 1985 almanac, the current
divorce rate is slightly more than one out of two marriages.  For    
comparison, I believe that the rate for 1940-1950 was one in ten.

William D.