The Rise of Divorce in America

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The year after the divorce colony closed down, a cornell professor analyzed census bureau data and calculated that one in every 12 marriages in america ended in divorce. He predicted that it would be one in two by the end of the century. April white describes a lecture the professor gave to his students in which he said, we are slowly awakening to a new ideal of the family based not upon the subordination the wife.

This episode picks up where Episode 193 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.

Blanche Molineux visited her husband while he was in prison for murder to keep up what she called the “ghastly pretense.” But eventually, she couldn’t keep it up anymore, and bought a train ticket to a place called "The Divorce Colony."

April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.

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