Tabloid Warning. It’s the Daily Mail speaking but it does quote YouGov research so I guess the material is “discussable” on an ephemeral level. The Daily Mail carries an article that claims that lack of love and (lack of) sex is driving the over-50s to divorce. Within the context of the whole divorce debate in Malta which does not shy away from throwing in the issue of whether divorce legislation causes marriage break-ups it is interesting to look at the list of troubles that married couples face – one can presume that these troubles exist with or without divorce.
- 28% – emotionally cold
- 27% – lack of commitment to marriage
- 25% – lack of interest in physical relationship
- 23% – inability to resolve or manage conflict
- 23% – other
- 14% – nagging
- 13% – met someone else
- 12% – abandonment
- 11% – alcohol/drug addiction
- 10% – nothing to talk about
- 9% – difficult relationship with step-children
- 9% – not contributing enough financially
- 8% – job that made things difficult
Recently someone dropped a comment on a newspaper discussion board comparing the relationship between divorce and marriage to that between funerals and death. The import was obvious – funerals do not cause deaths but inevitably take place following a death. As a prelude to the discussion on whether a referendum is eventually a “just” solution for our society or simply the mother of all scapegoats for the “sanscouillistas” in our parliament we can spend time discussing whether divorce is actually a cause of break ups or whether there is not enough on the list already. And I have not even included Tiger Woods.
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2 replies on “Break Up”
To the sancouillistas one can add the statisticistas who really, absolutely, massively fail to convince me. Are those numbers you’re juggling with or did a sancouillista just leave his couilles in the palm of your hand?
Not to mention the fact that the statistics where in those countries where divorce was introduced, the seperation (and divorce) cases increased. This statistics is simply untrue as the rate of seperation has been constantly increasing in all countries – before divorce was introduced and even after. Same thing is happening in Malta. We don’t have divorce but the number of failed marriages keep on increasing. These statistics if anything only show that divorce has no effect what so ever with the number of failed marriages.