By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz
Photo by CHPicturesblog.com
Orthodox Jewish couples have happier, sturdier marriages than other couples, a poll sponsored by the Orthodox Union revealed Wednesday.
The poll, conducted last year by the University of Chicago, included 3,670 couples. Eleven percent of the participants were Israeli couples who responded to a list of questions online.
In the poll, 72 percent of the men and 74 percent of the women in the Orthodox community described their marriages as “excellent” or “very good” as opposed to 63 percent of the men and 60 percent of the women in non-Orthodox communities who described their marriages as “happy.”
Seventy five percent of the poll participants, men and women, said that they would marry their current partner a second time.
“The result is not surprising,” said one of the pollsters.
“The current data confirms conclusions of previous studies that suggest that couples who regularly partake in some form of religious activity report a happier more satisfying marriage, and are less likely to divorce than other sectors,” he added.
Another conclusion of the poll is that those who join the Orthodox community and aren’t born into it face more marital problems than those born and raised Orthodox.
However, the poll analyzers stressed that even happy marriages face “inevitable disagreements” usually caused by financial pressure, communication problems and marital issues.
Why does it show a picture of a young boy and girl?
I have worked both with frum people and with goyim and when I worked with goyim I was with one other frum employee. We were both (by far) the happiest married people there. We were actually the happiest ones there altogether, because we were happy with our lot in life and the other people that we worked with were always moaning and groaning about their paycheques, children, family, friends etc. Please remember Jeff that you work with the couples who “have terrible marital grief”, but you don’t necessarily work with the ones that are happy with their marriages and yes,… Read more »
the word man-ish is spelled aleph, yud, shin. woman – ishah is spelled aleph, shin, hey. if the couple does not have a hay and a yud (one of G-D’s names) in their marriage they are left with the other letters = aish which means fire
That’s cute 😉
Hey! That’s my little brother and sister!
When they were 10!!!
cute picture!
Jeff, This is sampling technique, the distribution in sample tends to be very close to what is in real life. They don’t answer in public – those polls guarantee and assure participants full anonymity. There are definitely serious issues – but this is a comparative analyses. I am sure you deal with non-Jews/non-frums and realize they have lots of problems too – what this analyses say is they have more issues. Also, this analyses says that BT tends to be closer to the other category – did not you notice that most divorces are amongst BTs. I was reading Shai… Read more »
Finding the truth?! Total nonsense. Have you been out there in the world?
Either way it’s a cute image header for this article.
The poll results aren’t necessarily true. I can say matter of factly working within the orthodox comunity that we have a tendency to be more in denial and supressive of our true feelings. So despite many a couple have terrible .arital grief they will still say “oh, we’re fine” in public and pretend that there are no problems, when essentialy there’s bad discord and often cold war in private. But it could bethat with those who participated in this flawed poll the orthodox were indeed happier.