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Marriage

1
It’s not just men who play away (if it were, who would they play with?}What percentage of wives are thought to be unfaithful to their husbands?

1          None at all
2          About one in ten
3          About 40%
4          Very few aren’t

2
Choose this one on the basis of offspring rebellion and you should be spot on! How did couples react to opposition from one or both sets of parents? Did they:

1          Develop a stronger commitment to one another
2          Start losing their commitment to one another
3          Bring both sets of parents together to slug it out
4          Find it had no effect

3
Why do most people still get married? Could it be that despite its ever higher failure rates, it’s still more stable than just living together? Which is truer:

1          Marriages break down more than cohabitee relationships
2          Cohabitee relationships are ever so slightly more likely than  marriages to break down
2          Cohabitee relationships are four times as likely as marriages to break down
3          Marriages and cohabitee relationships are equally stable/unstable

4
It used to be called the ‘seven year itch’. Some men will always go for a bit on the side, but what proportion of married men do you think have affairs?

1          None
2          One in ten
3          Six in ten
4          Ten out of ten 

5
A significant number of people still get married because there’s a baby on the way. But how many brides do you think are actually pregnant on their wedding day?

1          An insignificant number
2          Three in ten
3          About nine in ten
3          Ten out of ten

6
Perhaps men tend to have more affairs because more men go out to work. What difference to her likelihood of having an affair will going to work have on a woman?

1          No difference
2          She’ll be much less likely
3          She will be three times more likely?
4          She will be thirty times more likely

7
Surveys have pointed up some interesting results of how tall married men tend to be in comparison to their unmarried counterparts. Were the marrieds on average:

1          Shorter than unmarrieds
2          The same height
3          Taller than the unmarrieds?
4          There is no correlation

8
Many have thought about wife swapping – you get to try a new partner while often having the voyeuristic pleasure of watching your own with someone else – but who’s tried it?

1          1 in 50,000
2          1in 5,000
3          1in 50
4          1 in 5

9
Women’s Lib says men and women should be equal – if not that women should rule the world! But do women tend to marry men (so far at least) who are:

1          More dominant
2          Less dominant
3          Positively servile
4          Equal

10
Marriage statistics have been studied across many countries and cultures. In terms of the relative ages of the partners, what do you think they reveal?

1          Most partners are the same age
2          Men are on average 3 years older than their wives
3          Men are on average 30 years older than their wives
4          Men are on average 3 years younger than their wives

 

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