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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 Grishnakh on Tuesday March 28 2017, @03:50PM (1 child)
And yet, only 13% of never married people say they do not want to get married.
They're asking the wrong people; they should be asking both married (and unhappy), and divorced people about their views on marriage. People who have never married haven't had to learn from harsh experience what it's really like. It'd also be interesting to see how the never-married people respond based on age range. The over-40 crowd probably has a different take than the under-25 crowd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:26PM
That's goal-post moving of the first degree.
The OP's thesis was that marriage as an institution is going away due to reasons. If that were the case then unmarried people would be happy with their unmarried status because of those reasons, not because of a lack of personal experience.