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Poor Communication Main Cause of Marriage, Cohabitation Breakdown

posted by n1 on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the xkcd-523 dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:27AM (3 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:27AM (#485742) Journal

    Not owning a Ferrari is also correlated with poverty. :P

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:18PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:18PM (#485830) Journal
    The difference is that encouraging marriage is cheaper for the encourager than building Ferraris.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:23PM (1 child)

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:23PM (#485948)

      Encouraging marriage can very likely lead to even more poverty. Just look at how many divorces coincide with bankruptcy, and combine that with the 50% divorce rate. Why do you want more people to go bankrupt?

      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday March 30 2017, @02:58PM

        by kaszz (4211) on Thursday March 30 2017, @02:58PM (#486487) Journal

        Precisely , Make love not mortgage ;-)

        Marriage and seeding cell donations are bad business. Besides being attached all the time might not be so good after all either.