Infidelity During Marriage
From StatWiki
- Among adults ever married in the 2000's, 21% of men and 14% of women reported that they had ever had sex with someone other than their spouse while they were married
"Among adults who were ever married in the 2000s, 21% of men and 14% of women reported that they had ever had sex with someone other than their spouse while they were married, according to the Project’s analysis of General Social Survey data. In the 1990s, 22% of ever-married men and 14% of ever-married women said they’d had an affair."
"For those who are married currently in the 2000s, 16% of men and 10% of women said they had an affair while married. In the previous decade, 16% of men and 11% of women said they’d cheated. The number of women who said that infidelity was 'always wrong' increased to 84% in the 2000s, up from 73% in the 1970s. Some 78% of men in the 2000s said infidelity was wrong, compared with 63% in the 1970s."
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The Wall Street Journal, Amid Downturn, Divorce and Infidelity Decrease, 8/31/2010, which cites data from The National Marriage Project
