Reason #33 to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3 CLICK THIS TEXT TO VISIT THIS BLOG'S CURRENT SITE

Because pathological, problem and even low-risk gamblers have far higher divorce rates (accompanied by all the economic costs associated with divorce) than non-gamblers.

This chart is from the 1999 National Opinion and Research Center's Gambling Impact and Behavior Study (see pages 48-50 of the study, not of the PDF, for the narrative):


As if, in today's society, anyone needed more risk factors than already exist for the possibility that their marriage will end in divorce. According to a Bowling Green Center for Family and Demographic Research report, "The marriage rate in Ohio [had] fallen from 8.5 per 1,000 in 1970 to 4.3 per 1,000 in 2000 while the divorce rate [had] increased in the same time period from 3.7 to 7.8 per 1,000.

I know two marriages that ended, both within the last three years, specifically because of a husband's gambling addiction. Both father's have three children. Neither the fathers nor the mothers have remarried.

Previous reasons to vote no on Issue 3:

Reason 34
Reason 35
Reason 36
Reason 37
Reason 38
Reason 39
Reason 40
Reason 41
Reason 42
Reason 43
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Reason 45
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Vote no on Issue 3.