FIRST MARRIAGES AND REMARRIAGES.

The article sets forth some of the differences between the social and economic characteristics of persons in the United States who are in their first marriages and of those who have remarried. Among married women in 1940, Negroes had about twice as large a proportion remarried as native white women. The difference by color was even greater in 1910. Only about one-fourth of those who obtained a divorce in the five years prior to the survey date had not remarried during the period, according to a comparison of the survey data with statistics based on divorce records. Persons who had married for the first time during the previous two years were very much more likely to have doubled up with relatives or others than were persons who had remarried during those two years. Women married only once who had lived with their husband less than two years were only one-half as likely to have dependent children in the home as women who had remarried during that time. Nearly one-half of the married women who were in their first year of marriage were in the labor force, but the corresponding proportion was only one-fifth for those married 5 to 9 years.