Durham County Progress
When Judge Henry A. Grady comes to Durham next month to preside over a term of Superior Court, he will find a total of 36 divorce cases awaiting disposal and in each case the interested parties will say that they have tried married life out to their heart’s content and found it a failure.
What’s wrong with married life today, anyway?
Years ago a divorce case was as rare as a pearl in an oyster and when one did come up in the courts it was the talk of the countryside. But today not a term of Superior Court in Durham or any other county in the state but that has one or more such actions and the divorce record in the state is growing by leaps and bounds.
Away back in the years agone, men and women doubtless had just as many family spats as they do today. However, there was probably not as much infidelity as is found today and the latter probably makes up the basis for the majority of the cases brought up these days.
And there is a cause of the latter. Men and women do not take the marriage vows as seriously now as they did a long while ago. Ofttimes marriages are for convenience alone and such a union cannot long and success fully exist and as a result, the courts step in an sever the marital knot.
But whatever the cause, the sad fact remains that marriage now is not the institution that it once was and at present rate of increase the time will come when whole terms of court will have to be devoted to the severing of that most sacred tie.
From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Sept. 5, 1925
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