Podcasts History History Unplugged Podcast The Divorce Colony: Why Women Fled to South Dakota in the 1880s to End Their Troubled Marriages

The Divorce Colony: Why Women Fled to South Dakota in the 1880s to End Their Troubled Marriages

Published: Aug. 25, 2022, 6:40 a.m.

No-fault divorce laws began spreading across the globe in the 1970s, in which neither party had to prove wrong-doing. Before this time, somebody had to prove that the other party breached the marital contract, typically through infidelity or...