Life Is Short, Have An Affair!
WHO CHEATS?
Infidelity isn’t something people like to talk about — much less
confess. Does anyone really want to admit cheating on a spouse, especially to a pollster. But the following poll results might help put in perspective the frequency and number of adulterers.
Infidelity statistics
It’s tough to get a handle on how many of us are having affairs, given the inherent secrecy.
- 22 percent of married men have strayed at least once during their married lives.
- 14 percent of married women have had affairs at least once during their married lives.
- Younger people are more likely candidates; in fact, younger women are as likely as younger men to be unfaithful.
- 70 percent of married women and 54 percent of married men did not know of their spouses’ extramarital activity.
- 5 percent of married men and 3 percent of married women reported having sex with someone other than their spouse in the 1997.
- 22 percent of men and 14 percent of women admitted to having sexual relations outside their marriage sometime in their past.
- 90 percent of Americans believe adultery is morally wrong.
- 50 percent of
Americans say President Clinton’s adultery makes his moral standard
“about the same as the average married man,” according to a Time-CNN
poll. - 61 percent of Americans thought adultery should not be a crime in the United states; 35 percent thought it should; 4 percent had no opinion.
- 17 percent of divorces in the United States are caused by infidelity.
See the article on AhsleyMadison.com by the Dr. Phil Show
Source for the Poll Info Only: Associated Press
