Heavy Drinking Leads To More Divorce - Unless Both Spouses Do It
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 19:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Drinking and marriage don't mix - unless both spouses do, according to a recent paper by the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) which followed 634 couples from the time of their weddings through the first nine years of marriage. The results: couples where only one spouse was a heavy drinker had a much higher divorce rate than other couples but if both spouses were heavy drinkers, the divorce rate was the same as for couples where neither were heavy drinkers. read more