Item from the Smart
Marriages Archive, reproduced in the Divorce Statistics
Collection
December 17, 1998
Denver (AP) - Coloradans would sacrifice careers and luxuries for a happy,
lasting
marriage, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The survey, conducted by the Rocky Mountain Family Council, a family advocacy
group, questioned 400 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus
4.9 percentage points.
Survey participants were asked if they could be promised one of the following,
would they choose a nice home, a fulfilling career, a comfortable retirement,
a satisfying lifelong marriage, or happy children.
According to the survey, 35 percent of the respondents chose a satisfying
lifelong marriage, the same number that chose happy children. Only 14 percent
said they would choose a comfortable retirement, and 6 percent a fulfilling
career. Three percent would most desire a nice home and seven percent did
not respond.
Those questioned were also asked if they had to sacrifice one thing what
would it be.
Ninety-seven percent said they would sacrifice any other lifelong goal than
give up satisfying marriage. Forty-nine percent said they would give up
a nice home and another 28 percent said they would sacrifice a fulfilling
career.
"No one ever goes to his grave saying, 'I wish I had worked longer
hours." Said McMillen,
president of the Rocky Mountain Family Council. "Our hope is that our
survey will encourage Coloradans to make the tough choices necessary to
ensure that their dreams of a satisfying, lifelong marriage and happy kids
become reality."
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