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Marriage makes people happier than six-figure salaries and religion
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^
| 10:00PM BST 30 May 2013
| Steven Swinford
Posted on 05/31/2013 2:28:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Marriage makes people happier than religious beliefs, earning six-figure salaries and having children, a study for the Office of National Statistics has found for the first time.
The ONS has found that being married is 20 times more important to a person’s well-being than their earnings, and 13 times more important than owning a home.
The figures also indicate that having children has almost no impact on a person’s day-to-day happiness, although it does make them feel life is more “worthwhile”. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: family; liberalagenda; marriage; truereligion
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posted on
05/31/2013 2:28:41 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Howz 'bout if you make 6 figures, have kids, and go to church regularly?
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posted on
05/31/2013 2:33:33 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Stand Your Ground)
To: Olog-hai
Marriage makes people happier ...Not necessarily ...
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posted on
05/31/2013 2:35:23 AM PDT
by
Ken522
To: Olog-hai
Marriage? If I want companionship I'll buy a dog. They are more loyal cheaper, and nobody really cares if you take them out in the woods and shoot them. As long as you have a good reason.
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posted on
05/31/2013 2:47:38 AM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
(...Was that okay?)
To: BigCinBigD; Ken522
I’m guessing some people on here got burned by marrying liberals . . . ?
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posted on
05/31/2013 2:48:55 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai; All
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posted on
05/31/2013 3:01:39 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Olog-hai
I can’t say, never got to try a 6 figure salary.
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posted on
05/31/2013 3:02:35 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I have a poster on my wall at work that lists 20 steps to being happy and successful...it has all the usual things such as “Be the hardest working person you know” etc.
But number one on the list is: “Marry the right person. 90% of your happiness and satisfaction in life depends on this.”
I believe that 100%.
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posted on
05/31/2013 3:44:41 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
To: Olog-hai
Well, what's the point of that money if you never want to go home and enjoy it?
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posted on
05/31/2013 3:56:45 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Olog-hai
I don’t personally have anything to compare this to. I don’t really remember what it was like to not be married. I do have a 7 figure income, if you ignore the little dot in there.
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posted on
05/31/2013 4:03:30 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: Olog-hai
They must have only surveyed newlyweds...
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posted on
05/31/2013 4:57:11 AM PDT
by
ItsOurTimeNow
("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
To: faithhopecharity
Exactly. Some marriages are a living Hell that you’d pay a six figure salary and pray in church every day to get out of . . . . .
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posted on
05/31/2013 4:57:18 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Olog-hai
Sure and the reason 2 out of 3 marriages fail is.......?
To: Olog-hai
This whole report is off. It implies causality where there’s no basis for doing so. Also, marriage is reported as being many times more a factor of happiness than some other factors—and then it turns out it only correlates with a 1.4% difference on their scale. So they are slicing and dicing very finely and then imputing causality to boot.
To: Olog-hai
Depends on the marraige...
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posted on
05/31/2013 5:42:18 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: rlmorel
Absolutely correct and why premarital sex is so destructive.
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posted on
05/31/2013 5:47:54 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: billyboy15
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posted on
05/31/2013 5:56:32 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Opinionated Blowhard
But are both partners in that marriage religious conservatives who are not focused inward at their respective selves?
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posted on
05/31/2013 5:57:49 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Ken522
Marriage makes people happier ...
Not necessarily ...
Sadly, that is true sometimes. I lucked out in that department of life. I feel bad for people who miss out on the real thing.
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