Sentences with phrase «number of failed marriages»

Pessimism About Marital Success Research indicates that young people, being acutely aware of a number of failed marriages, are skeptical about the viability of marriage over time.

Newsfactor, Wed Sep 1 — Now sociologists have another culprit to blame for huge numbers of failed marriages: The Internet... New figures released by the United Kingdom's Office of National Statistics show that divorce in England and Wales has risen for the third successive year in 2003, to more than 150,000.

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if more marriages are failing right now, I'd say the number one cause is our lack of knowledge of how to built and maintain one — not that we aren't suited for it.

Although this does happen, more often than not bankruptcy occurs because of a failed marriage, major illness, and a number of other situations that arise completely out of a person's control.

The Gottmans have studied both the «masters and disasters» of marriage (as the absence of what makes for a good relationship may not necessarily be the same thing as what makes for a bad relationship), and offers that there are a number of myths about why relationships succeed or fail.

For an interesting discussion of why living together fails miserably as a «trial marriage,» as well as a review of a number of other studies that give similar results as the University of Wisconsin study, check out two articles written by Dr. Willard Harley.

The numbers are even higher in some Western states like Nevada and California where over 60 % of first marriages fail.