NATIONAL POST - Nov 18 - Researchers widely agree that the rate of female infidelity is rising. “Women in our society have been held up as the moral paragons, so the increase in female infidelity causes us to consider whether infidelity is as immoral as we believe,” said David Ley, a New Mexico psychologist and author of Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them, a recently released book that documents female infidelity. Since the 1990s, the number of women who reported ever having an affair has risen to 19% from 12%, compared with a stable 23% among men, according to a recent study by researchers at the Kinsey Institute. “Is this a good thing? It sure is. Women are claiming their right to feel fulfilled in relationships and sex, regardless of what society might expect of them.” With a job comes financial independence, and research shows that the more money people make, the more likely they are to cheat. In the Kinsey Institute study, 16% of impoverished or lower-income people said they had been unfaithful, compared with 24% among higher earners. As women’s economic independence rises, so does her propensity to take risks and seek out “the other man.”
by Kathryn Blaze Carlson
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