Poor and humble couples are miserable? Study: Lack of money weakens marriage

> Are poor and humble couples miserable? Study: Lack of money weakens marriage (Alberta Times) A ​​new study suggests that low-income men and women are less likely to get married than those with more money...

Poor couples are miserable? Study: Lack of money weakens marriages (Alberta Times) Low-income men and women are less likely to get married and more likely to divorce than wealthy couples, a new study suggests, citing social and financial factors such as money problems, alcohol and drug use. The UCLA researchers also found that people with lower incomes had similar views about the institution of marriage as those with higher incomes, and they also held similar romantic standards for marriage. According to the report's authors, these findings suggest that efforts to strengthen marriages among low-income people should go beyond promoting the value of marriage and focus on the problems faced by low-income people. The study will be published in a recent issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family. Terrell, co-author of the article, said in a news release that over the past 15 years, various efforts to address the decline in the proportion of marriages among low-income couples and the increase in divorce rates have been guided by assumptions that low-income people marry less often and that they have higher rates of marriage failure. The purpose of our research is to separate fiction from reality. Terrell and his colleague Carney analyzed responses to the telephone survey. The surveys were based on more than 6,000 people in Florida, California, New York and Texas, with an average age of 45. Compared with higher-income earners, lower-income earners have similar views on marriage. They are less likely to agree to divorce and are more likely to value the financial aspects of marriage, including whether the husband and wife have good jobs.