Nationally, divorce rates climbed 82 percent during the decade of the 1970s, and in no state was this trend more apparent than in Florida. According to the 1978 records of the Vital Statistics of Florida (VSF), dissolutions of marriage (including annulments) reached an all-time high, while remaining below the 1975 divorce rate, at which it had peaked. The divorce ratio in 1978 was 7.4%, an increase...