A Tenfold Increase of Young Widow Brides More elderly bachelors are taking to marriage, and the number of widows (of all ages) remarrying is on the increase.
This is the experience of 1919, as shown by the 82nd annual report of the Registrar-Genera] for England and Wales. In many respects the better health figures continue the good record of 1918.
In the case of young widows the number of remarriages is easily explained by the war, but after 45 the increases seem too great to be explained in this way.
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