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based on decennial Census data, the limitations of which are great. The Philadelphia data (Table 4) suggest that the foreign born may have been underrepresented in divorce actions. It is apparent, furthermore (Table 5), that relatively fewer foreign born appear in the desertion and non-support picture. Since the rate of divorce and desertion is highest in the early years of married life, diminishing thereafter, and since most foreign born were married long ago, their smaller contribution in recent years to desertion and divorce can be attributed to a large extent to their marriages being of longer duration. However, as the accompanying table shows, and as Patterson demonstrated for Philadelphia some 30 years ago33 (when marriage durations were probably nearly alike), compared to the native whites and the nonwhites the foreign born accounted for fewer cases of desertion relative to their married population. Hence, in
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