Friday, June 19, 2020

Infidelity rates, families of British troops, North Africa, 1940s

Infidelity rates, families of British troops, North Africa, 1940s

Source: Tyler Cowen, Jun 18 2020, https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/06/that-was-then-this-is-now-27.html, commenting on Daniel Todman’s Britain’s War 1942-1947.

About 55 percent of British servicemen in World War II were married. Furthermore, by mid-1943, British military units were dealing with almost one hundred cases of "family anxiety" a day, with about two-thirds of those being infidelity issues, summing yearly to about 7.5 percent of the married British servicemen in North Africa and the Middle East at that time.

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