STATISTICS
Percentage of Americans who view role playing as a healthy part of a sexual relationship:
59
Percentage that has actually used role playing during sexual activity:
29
Median ages of first marriage for men and women in 1960:
23, 21
Median ages of first marriage for men and women in 1999:
27, 25
Percentage of first marriages described as "very happy" in 1976:
54
Percentage in 1996:
38
Percentage of Catholic and Protestant marriages that end in divorce after five years:
20
Percentage of Jewish marriages that do:
40
Number of cohabiting, unmarried couples in 1960:
439,000
Number in 1998:
4.2 million
SOURCES: American Demographics; National Commission on Children; The National Marriage Project; Yankelovich Partners
