{"id":1642,"date":"2022-11-09T15:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:32:44","slug":"study-finds-that-couples-who-marry-due-to-family-and-social-pressure-are-50-percent-more-likely-to-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2022\/11\/study-finds-that-couples-who-marry-due-to-family-and-social-pressure-are-50-percent-more-likely-to-divorce.html","title":{"rendered":"Study Finds That Couples Who Marry Due to Family and Social Pressure Are 50 Percent More Likely to Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Couples who get married due to family or social pressure are up to 50 percent more at risk of having a union that ends in divorce, according to a recent study from the\u00a0Marriage Foundation<\/a>\u00a0in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

The study, \u201cAttitudes towards marriage and commitment<\/a>,\u201d published in October, asked 2,000 adults who had ever married how much they agreed or disagreed with each of the 12 reasons presented by researchers for why they got married. To ensure that the findings were relevant to today\u2019s families, researchers focused on 905 couples from the sample who married for the first time after the year 2000 when online dating emerged.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this research shows conclusively is that the reasons why people get married have a significant material impact on whether they stay together. While this might seem obvious, this has never been quantified,\u201d said Harry Benson, Marriage Foundation\u2019s research director, in a statement about the study. \u201cBut the message is clear. Get married for love and your future together and not because it is either expected of you or because of family pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Respondents who said they \u201cfelt they had to marry due to family pressure\u201d registered a significantly higher probability of divorce at just 34% compared to 23 percent of couples who did not identify these reasons. \u201cPut another way, couples who tied the knot due to family pressure were 50% more likely to split up,\u201d the foundation noted. Respondents who agreed that their marriage \u201cjust kind of happened\u201d (slide into it<\/a>) also had a 29 percent probability of divorce throughout the study compared to 22 percent of those who disagreed.<\/p>\n

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The findings took into account measures such as gender, age at marriage, occupation, where the couple met, whether they had done some form of marriage preparation or signed a prenuptial agreement, how much their wedding cost, how many guests they had, and whether one of them earned more than the other or was better educated than the other.<\/p>\n

Researchers also found that factors such as having an expensive wedding costing more than $22,000 (\u00a320,000), having met online or at work rather than meeting through family and friends, and having fewer than 10 guests at the wedding were all associated with a higher risk of divorce in the early years of marriage.<\/p>\n

Individuals who view their marriage as a cornerstone of building a life together generally fared better than those who got married due to social pressure. One researcher noted, \u201cThe difference in probabilities is non-trivial. Again taking into account all of the other reasons and factors, [couples who married to build a life together] were more likely to stay together. The probability of divorce for the average marriage in our sample was 23% if they agreed, compared to 33% if they disagreed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Couples who got married to declare their commitment to each other also tended to do better, as did those who married because they wanted to have children who grew up in a two-parent household, but that observation came with a caveat.\u00a0Researchers say this last finding should be interpreted with caution because some couples may stay together for their children in the short term, which ultimately breaks the marriage in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Couples who get married due to family or social pressure are up to 50 percent more at risk of having a union that ends in divorce, according to a recent study from the\u00a0Marriage Foundation\u00a0in England and Wales. 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