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Divorce rate up harply during pa t decade; Blac
ratio of divorced
to th
t marriage jumped
uply in the decade
between 1970 d 1980,
B omen exper-
leJl.:ma great increaae
of or
group.
Acoor ° to a survey
eel by C
&ftN�-.u, Department 0
Commerce, the divorce ratio
for B me more
doub from 1970,
iraIling from 104 to 257
diYoroed omen per 1000
married °th
th ° IDOl.asea.
men, reO ° r in-
idenee of renwriege for
an divorced ,of
S 0 0 , 59 per 1000
living ith their
The combined cmorce
ratio for B men d
(203 per 1(00)
t doub e th for
bite penons and persons
of S origin (92 and
94, ° ly).
Of all e groups, perso
in 3044 year old
bracket had the higbe
divorce ratio (125 per
1000), according to
ney ..
Incre d marital disrup-
tion, the report abo noted,
had appreciab effect
durinl d on the
arrangements of
children under 18. The
proportion of children
with both paren
from 85 to 77
percent. 1980
o out of eyery five chil­
dren . one parent
family. Of the 12 miDio
children liYing one-parent
hoJd, 92 percent .
th rt he> ry
ely ei divorced
or aep ted.
Am<> B dWdren
der 18 yean old, 46
peroept Imd one
parent 1980, up from
32 percent 1970.
Co ndioa figure
1980 for bite children ro
to 15 percent form 9
percent] 1970. Figures
ere una for
Sp . origin children for
1970, but in 1980, 21
percent lived· one-parent
ho ho .
Other highlights of the
report included:
Perso who· alone
repre Dted 23 percent of
an ho 0 in 1980, the
number growing from 109
million 1970 to 17.8
million year. 0
of the growth, the survey
indicate , amo
diYorced or D r-married
persons, d peno under
35 yean old. Divorced
persons .. alone jumped
ew Head Start Center
opens at Spin sCorners
The Tfi..County Head
Start program h opened
a center at the former
Spinks Comers School d
ill accepting plica-
, according to Orion
en, director of
ogram.
The center I t apier
d Park Road, 5� mile
of Benton Harbor in
Bainbridge TOlwn�thin
F1 e . d Benton Har­
bor are parents interested
in h ° their 3 to 5
year-old children attend at
Sp ° Come m call
the Head Start office col-
Decatur. The num-
ber ° 423-7086.
The Spink Comer
Center facili . for
20 dents in each of
four . Two
meet in the moming and
o in the afternoon. em
d e provided
it reported, d Head
Start pro ode ttlDlpOration
through the Dia!-A-Ride
program spon r for
pr hool children
Berrien, C , and V
Buren countie .
Cutbacks fo rce shorter
l C library hou rs
Benton To .p
e Co�e u-
bruy open hours are being
reduced effective Oct. 19
of cutb
affected
omen rno
from 1.5 million to 3.4
million during the decade.
In 1980, the majority
of persons ho lived 0
ere omen (llmillion
women rsu 6.8 million
o-thirds of
be 20
old· 1980
married for
Between
e married coup
24 yean together tripled, .
not yet 523,000 to 1,560,000.
fint time.
1970
re B lIDO
10 men, 14 percent ere
B
Half of the WOIneD.
1980, the number of un-