Headline Oct2,2012 / ''The Sleaze Hotline!''

''THE SLEAZE HOTLINE!''

Divorce proceedings, just as always, turn into sleaze slinging matches with lawyers and private Detective Agencies providing the evidence and the propulsion. And the Academics aren't so sure about anything.
Anastasia de Waal, director of family and education at the Think Tank Civitas called these multimillion pound settlements ''Freak'' occurrences. ''In the majority of  cases, the woman becomes poorer after the divorce,'' she said.

So why are men so Gun shy? Actually,they are not, claimed de Waal.  In a survey conducted by Civitas, almost three quarters of young adults, -aged 20 to 35- confessed to a desire to tie the knot someday, and men were even a bit keener than women. The No 1 reason for wanting to marry -among both sexes- is simply the desire to make a formal commitment, which Civitas views as good news as a vote of confidence in the Institution, despite the recent fall in marriage rates.

''In the past, the people had to marry,'' said de Waal. The fact that men and women tell pollsters that they want to marry, even in the absence of social pressures to do so, means that the marriage is far from dead.Only two percent of respondents felt that marriage was a patriarchal concept, one that endangers gender equality, and men were more highly represented in that two percent than woman.

The longevity of the tradition of men proposing marriage also indicates that there are some of you out there who are entering into legal commitment somewhat voluntarily. Wide scale studies consistently show that married men live longer and enjoy better mental health than their unattached brethren. Although that could simply be the benefits of an ever present woman to administer her husband's blood-pressure medications. Hahaha!

Then how to explain the deep and steep decline in the number of marrying couples? Certainly the astronomical cost of a wedding is a factor. Most weddings run to pound 10,000 or more -thats almost 49 per cent of the average UK salary. These massive weddings in OK magazine put a lot of people off. With the influence of Media, brides have a lot of extremely high expectations.

Interestingly, Civitas Data indicates that middle-class grooms are turned off by the price of wedding parties and engagement rings, while lower-class men worry about scraping together the funds for a down payment on a marital home.

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