56% of Divorces Have Porn As A Factor

I read this statistic on a poster for helping with human trafficking awareness and how porn contributes to that. I am sure this isn't the first time this has been brought up, but it seemed so mind blowing to me. I went to look it up to see how true it was and found this:

"In a 2004 testimony before the United States Senate, Dr. Jill Manning shared some interesting data regarding pornography and relationships. In her research she found that 56 percent of divorce cases involved one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.1 Another source, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, polled 350 divorce attorneys in 2003 where two thirds of them reported that the Internet played a significant role in the divorces, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases.

If these numbers are accurate, here's a very sobering statistic. Every year for the past decade there have been roughly 1 million divorces in the United States. If half of the people divorcing claim pornography as the culprit, that means there are 500,000 marriages annually that are failing due to pornography."
This is from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...n-really-destroying-500000-marriages-annually

So, that is 2004. I would imagine the number from that would only increase with everyone now having access to porn via phones all the time. It just seems so high.

So sad how much damage P can do to us, to our relationships/marriages, to our families, and to our society.

Is this statistic shocking to you, too? I'm curious if it is just me or if that seems like a crazy high number. I always feel like nobody except those here can relate to what I'm going through but it seems like many could. Just nobody is talking about it openly.

 

I'd be interested in that, too. Not sure how you'd get that statistic, but yeah.

 

Yeah I think you are correct about that!