The treatment must be more radical, and the character of individuals be made more noble and strong, if the family is to be made more stable and marriage more successful.
=Frequency of Divorce in the United States.=--The first point to be noted in any discussion of the broken family is the frequency of that social tragedy in the United States.

The pioneer study by Professor W.P.Willcox, made in 1885 and reported in his volume entitled _The Divorce Problem_, showed the fact that we had in this country at that time more divorces per year than were recorded in all the other so-called Christian countries put together.

For 1905, statistics show nearly 68,000 divorces in the United States as against the highest number from Germany, which is only a trifle above 11,000, and from France, 10,860, and running down rapidly to the number of 33 in Canada.

In England, in 1905, there was but one divorce to 400 marriages.

In the United States, in the same year, one divorce to every 12 marriages.