Does the fact that on average married people are
happier mean that we should promote marriage?
Almost 80% already reported well-being before getting married, with no increase afterward. Marriage seems to be a reward for having well-being, rather than a way to attain it.
But 6% demonstrated a sharp decrease in well-being after
marriage.
Only 10% found that getting married cured their
unhappiness. They felt decreasing well-being before marriage, but became
happier afterward.
For people in high-quality marriages, divorce
produced very large and persistent decreases in overall happiness. But for people
who had been in low-quality marriages, divorce produced an increase in
happiness.
The majority of divorced people were resilient.
They did not experience large declines in happiness, and their depression did
not differ from people who remained in marriages of similar quality.
Stephanie
Coontz, Director of Research and Public Edution, Council on Contemporary Families
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