Staying in an unhappy marriage “is for the best”
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People who stick with their spouse through unhappy times are better off in the long run, the Marriage Foundation claims.
In new research, the campaign group insisted that “unhappiness in a marriage is often just a short-term and fixable problem”.
Although the Foundation admitted that some parents are unhappy with their marriage following the birth of their first child, they claimed that the majority of those couples – seven out of every ten – stayed together and 68 per cent of them were happy ten years later. In fact, 27 per cent of those who were unsatisfied when they became parents had become “extremely happy” within a decade.
These figures were based on an analysis of 15,207 parents whose children were born in 2000 or 2001. This data was gathered as part of the Millennium Cohort Study conducted by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, an economic research organisation based at the University of London.
Marriage Foundation research director Harry Benson said that despite popular b...
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