MANIQUEZ, JOHN LESTER M.

BS PSYCHOLOGY 3-1

FACT-FINDING TASK

THIS IS THE AGE WHEN MARRIED MEN ARE MOST LIKELY TO CHEAT

Studies shows that men are more likely to commit infidelity than women.
46 percent of men are reported cheating in the past while women got a 21
percent, based on the report of AARP magazine. IFS also found that 10
percent versus 11 percent of those under 30 married men and women cheats.
The rate of infidelity of men are highest in their old age.

Men having a 20 percent confirmation that they had sex other than their
wedded partners are higher compared to the 13 percent the women has. On
their 50 to 69 years old, men also got the higher rate to cheat than women of
24 percent versus 16 percent. And other survey also confirmed that it goes
higher until men reached their 80s. On the other hand women reportedly has
their higher risk to infidelity in their 60s and goes down in their 70s and 80s.

1990s were the peak of infidelity among men in their 50s, older men are
less likely to cheat than the younger but in 2000s the infidelity rate climb up
to men in 60s. Americans born in 1940s and 1950s allegedly in highest rates
of extramarital sex and the climbing rates of infidelity contributes to changing
pattern of age gap as they grow older over time, stated by the director of
research of IFS, Wendy Wang, PhD.