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.
Related articles
- ‘Saga divorces’ as over-50s blame lack of intimacy for splits (telegraph.co.uk)
- The Positive Side of Divorce for Children (socyberty.com)
