Hi!
Not particularly aware of this as a problem of the 1920s. However
anecdotally from family history's it appears in the 19th century.
arising, inter alia, from transient workforces, and cost and cultural
problems around divorce.
John Harrison
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Hi Everyone,
Does anyway out there know anything about bigamy and dual family
fathering (i.e. of men maintaining two separate families at the same
time) in the 1920s?
Given the loss of life in the First World War (700,000 men dead) and
the
large numbers injured there was a distinct shortage of men to go
around.
This leads me to speculate that a large number of men, may have been
running two households at the same time either with or without the
knowledge of one or both 'spouses'.
I did once hear that bigamy reached a peak in the 1920s and if this is
so, it seems reasonable to speculate that the official figures were
only
the tip of a much large iceberg.
David
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