Divorce and Marriage Statistics
Parade Magazine ran an interesting story on marriages and divorces in America. Their survey confirmed that money and sex are the main sources of stress in a marriage. Of their respondents, 43% reported that they squabble over money. Household chores ranked second, although men consider chores less of an issue than women – telling since men still do considerably less housework than women. As for sex, three-quarters of the respondents in the survey reported their sex lives were fulfilling, while 25% put their sex lives on the tolerable or terrible end of the spectrum. Even so, 60% of the men reported that they don’t have sex enough, while 51% of the women shared that feeling. Despite those complaints, most of the respondents reported being faithful to their spouses, although 25% of men said they’d strayed outside their marriage or refused to answer the question. Only 15% of women reported cheating or refused to answer the question.
Of the women, 44% have thought about leaving their husbands, where 31% of men have had the same thought.
Question… with a national divorce rate holding around 50% (and a slightly higher rate of divorce in Dallas Texas area) the respondents of the Parade survey must not be typical of the whole of society.
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