75 years ago today - Jan 26, 1942

First counselor J. Reuben Clark tells a reporter for 'Look' magazine: "Our divorces are piling up." The Church Historian's Office in 1968 compiles the divorce statistics since 1910 for temple marriages, "church civil" marriages, and "other civil" marriages. Although temple marriages have the lowest divorce rate, in 1910 there was one "temple divorce" (cancellation of sealing) for every 66 temple marriage performed that year, 1:41 in 1915, 1:34 in 1920, 1:27 in 1925, 1:30 in 1930, 1:23 in 1935, 1:27 in 1939, 1:17 in 1945, 1:31 in 1950, a:30 in 1955, 1:19 in 1960 and 1965.

[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]

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