I’m not so pessimistic about the state of American marriage as the article Susan

linked to would suggest. The methodology — self-selected samples — is

problematic; better data from the National Opinion Research Center (although

from 1996) suggests that about 11 percent of wives have been unfaithful to their

husbands, and 1.3 percent have cheated on their husbands in the past year. (For

men, the numbers are about 20 and 3.6 percent, respectively.)

What is troubling is that so many women see so little wrong with adultery. I

wonder how many had children . . .