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The most common reasons given for the breakdown of marriages or live-in partnerships in Britain are communication problems and growing apart, according to analysis by UCL researchers of the latest National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3).
[...] Natsal is the largest scientific study of sexual health lifestyles in Britain. It is carried out by UCL, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and NatCen Social Research [sic]
Natsal is run every 10 years, and includes a representative sample of men and women resident in Britain aged between 16 and 74. Natsal-3 was carried out between 2010 and 2012.
The study focused on the responses of 706 men and 1254 women to questions about their reasons for breakdown of a marriage or cohabiting relationship in the past 5 years.
[UCL is, of course, University College London. It has as part of one of its faculties the above-mentioned school.]
I would have guessed footie.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Tuesday March 28 2017, @03:33PM
I certainly don't want to downplay your valid point about child abuse occurring among non-family caregivers. However, it's worthwhile to note that most stats suggest it's a lot more common for abuse to occur in the home (from parents, siblings, other extended family members, family friends, etc.). Stats I've seen are that parents are generally implicated in ~75-80% of substantiated cases of child maltreatment, and ~90% of child abuse is caused by relatives of the child.
Perhaps those stats are so high mostly because of "opportunity," i.e., most kids spend a lot of their free time with family, and perhaps rates among non-family would be higher if more children were in the care of other people. (This is suggested by the high rates of foster care abuse, for example.) But the fact remains that right now a lot more abuse occurs at the hands of family.