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Laws making divorce easier, which came into vogue in the late 1960s, have made the experience less harrowing for many couples. The social stigma once attached to divorce has almost disappeared. However, the statistic that almost 1/2 of all marriages end in divorce seems to be an urban myth. Researcher George Barna"s most 2001 survey of Americans estimates that only 34 percent of those who have ever been married have ever been divorced. A 2005 report released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), based on a 1995 nationwide study of approximately 11,000 women ages 15-44, predicted that one-third of new marriages among younger people will end in divorce within 10 years and 43 percent within 15 years. So, not quite one-half, but still a considerable number of marriages will end eventually.
This is partly due to demographics; people live longer than they did 100 years ago, so there is much more time for relationships to go sour. In addition, better employment opportunities for women allow them to leave abusive or tepid marriages, whereas previous generations of women would have no choice, due to financial considerations, except to stay in such unions.
In cases of divorce, many couples make predictable mistakes. People start off by thinking they"re not going to lose their cool, or their money and property, and wind up doing just that. However, it is possible to avoid a lot of unnecessary grief by learning from the experiences of couples who have gone through the process.
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For most men, they will certainly think that they will look stronger and more attractive if they have a hairy body. A man will probably think that a hairy body is a sexy one and it may help him to attract women. However, the question here is whether women think of it in the same way. In this article, this issue will be discussed.
As a matter of fact, it seems that women treat hair totally different from men. They will prefer to shave and have no hair on their bodies. However, this may not necessarily mean that they want no hair on the body of a man. In fact, there are some surveys which deal with this problem and we can take a look at the results of one of these surveys so that we can have a better understanding on how women think about the hairy bodies of men. In this pilot study, 100 women were surveyed.
According to the study, 76% of women will prefer a man with hairy chest. However, only 34% of them mentioned that they love chests that are fully covered by hair. The interesting finding here is that women love hairy chest but not many of them will love a chest covered with a carpet!
Besides, more than 90% of the women will find a man strange if he does not have any armpit hair. They just expect men with hair on their armpit! So, if you are a male reader, shaving the armpit hair will just do you harm, in term of attractiveness. However, it may still be a good idea to trim it regularly so that it will not look awful.
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