It's long been said that money issues are the No. 1 reason why people divorce.
But not anymore, according to a new poll commissioned by Divorce360.com, a support site for people going through a divorce. Financial reasons fell to No. 2 on the list of top causes for divorce.
So what's the new No. 1 reason? Physical or verbal abuse, according to the poll. Thirty-six percent of respondents said abuse was the cause of their divorce. Twenty-two percent said they divorced due to financial issues.
The results can be taken several ways: Either more people are getting out of abusive marriages (which is good) or there are more abusive marriages (which is bad). This also could mean that couples are finding more ways to compromise on finances and work through tough problems involving money.
What do you think of the results? Does it even matter what the reasons are that cause people to divorce? If we know the reasons, can we avoid them?
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The No. 1 reason people get divorced
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4 comments:
I have read that infidelity was the second cause of divorce.
Money, infidelity, physical and verbal abuse....they all add up to divorce.
i think verbal abuse has only recently been a socially accepted reason for most women to get out of marriages, so i think that more women feel okay to leave abusive situations now. before, women felt obligated to stay through being degraded as long as they were not being hit. this change makes me very happy for how far women have come.
I agree with the last anon it's now socially accetable for a woman to leave an abusive relationship.
Now we just need men to report abuse (women are abusers also) and for the stigma of it to go away.
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