14thJuly
Will Your Marriage Last?
Researchers from Australian National University recently released a survey that showed it takes a lot more than love to keep a marriage together.
In the survey titled “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” approximately 2,500 couples were tracked from 2001 to 2007. The suvey compares those that stayed together with those that were divorced or separated.
Does your marriage have what it takes?
The Findings:
1. A husband nine or more years older than a wife is twice as likely to divorce.
2. Men married before turning 25 are also twice more likely to divorce.
3. Of couples with children before marriage, 20% have separated, where only 9% of couples without children born before marriage separated.
4. If women want children much more than the man, the likelihood for divorce is greater.
5. Only 10% of couples with parents who didn’t separate ended up divorcing, whereas 16% of couples with divorced or separated parents ended up getting divorced.
6. Men or women in their second or third marriage are 90% more likely to separate than when both spouses are in a first marriage.
7. Respondents who said they were poor or the husband was unemployed showed a 16% divorce rate, but only 9% of couples with health finances divorced.
8. Couples where only one partner smokes were more likely to have a failed relationship.
The survey also showed that the number and age of children born to a married couple, wife’s employment and number of years a couple is employed doesn’t affect the likelihood of separation or divorce.
Study by: Dr. Rebecca Kippen, The Australian National University; Prof. Bruce Chapman, Australian National University; and Dr. Peng Yu, Department of Families, Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
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Helen Holmes says 3rd August @ 8:50
Re No. 8 and cigarettes, this is polling done with an up front agenda it seems. I smoke, my husband did but doesn’t. On the other hand, I am the handyman and chief cook and bottlewasher for a guy who finds it a chore to leave a soggy tea bag in the sink no less than to simply watch moi to toss them in the garbage. I could go on. You lose credibility and about 30% of the potentional people you could help with that sort of pointed nonsense.