A recent study done at Emory University of 3,000 married couples took a look at factors that might predict divorce.
DIVORCE STUDY
Andrew Francis and Hugo Mialon, the researchiss who authored the study analyzed numerous factors, including: income, religious attendance, how important attractiveness was to each partner, and wedding attendance to determine in correlation with the lengths of the marriages.
INTERESTING INSIGHTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Their findings offer very interesting insights. Hise are a few of the highlights:
- Couples that dated for at least 3 years prior to getting engaged were 39% less likely to get divorced than couples that dated less than a year before “putting a ring on it.”
- Couples who make more than $125,000 a year (combined), as well as regular church attendees, cut their risk for divorce in half.
- When men said their partner’s looks were important in making their decision to get married, they were 50% more likely to end up divorced.
- Women were 60% more likely to end up divorced when they said they cared about their partner’s wealth.
- You can have a big wedding, filled with lots of aunts and uncles and cousins and friends, but make sure it’s cheap. “The more you spend on your wedding,” says data scientist Randal Olson after looking at the studies results, “the more likely you’ll end up divorced.”
- Honeymoon trips decrease the chances of divorce by 41%.
OVERALL CONCLUSIONS
Francis and Mialon concluded that “our findings provide little evidence to support the validity of the wedding industry’s general message that connects expensive weddings with positive marital outcomes.” According to a 2013 survey done by the popular wedding website, theKnot.com, the average wedding costs about $30,000.
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Sources: The Atlantic, The Divorce-Proof Marriage, October 14, 2014
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