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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: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday March 28 2017, @07:36PM
Take a look at Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee.
We are best classified as one of the great apes, a subgroup of the primates. Chimps and apes have a wide variety of reproduction strategies. Mountain gorillas do indeed have the alpha male and harem set up. Chimps such as the bonobo are much more freewheeling and promiscuous, mating with each other all the time. Diamond points out that there is a correlation between male testicle size and sexual behavior. Relative to body weight, chimps have very large testes, the better to flood the females with lots of seed, and to shorten recovery time, increasing their odds of becoming fathers. The male gorilla doesn't need large testes because he doesn't mate that often, as he relies on physical force to keep other males away and doesn't have to guess when the female is in heat. Humans fit in at "mildly promiscuous". Monogamy was never entirely our way, though we're close enough to that lifestyle that we can do it.