A new study found that couples who meet online are more likely to get divorced during the first three years of marriage.
Does it really matter how you meet your spouse? According to a new study, it might.the study found that 12% of couples who meet online get divorced within the first three years of marriage compared to 2% of couples who meet through friends or family. After seven years, those statistics increase to 17% and 10% respectively.
The research was commissioned by the Marriage Foundation and compiled by polling company Savanta ComRes, both based in the U.K. "These figures are troubling given the increasing popularity of couples meeting online," the Marriage Foundation’s research director, Harry Benson, said in a statement released Sunday."It suggests that in the early years of marriage, couples who meet this way might lack sufficient social capital or close support networks around them to deal with all the challenges they face."
The study surveyed more than 2,000 adults who were at least 30 years old and married at least once. Since the 2000s, online dating has surged in popularity and acceptance, currently responsible for more than half of couples. Before the 2000s, about two-thirds of couples met through family, at work or in social settings such as bars or parties.
The study controlled for the decade in which couples met, age, gender and occupation, and online couples were still more likely to divorce in the early years.
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