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MONEY MAGAZINE / ICR POLL:
DO YOU HAVE A PRE-NUP?
-- Parents
recommend one for their children; very few have their own --
NEW YORK, NY [March 8, 2006] A
recent Money Magazine / ICR survey of 1,016 Americans revealed that only 1% of
Americans who are married or planning to be in the next year currently have a
pre- or post-nuptial agreement. Just
another 2% reported that they plan to write one. On the contrary, nearly one-in-five (17%) married Americans whose children are
unmarried are likely to encourage their children to write a pre-nuptial
agreement prior to getting married.
The biggest reasons cited for not having a pre- or
post-nuptial agreement were:
- They
believe they will never divorce (43%).
- One-third
believes marriage is an emotional commitment and financial agreements
should not be made (33%).
- They
do not have enough money to make it worthwhile (10%).
- Finally,
5% said they could not ask their significant other to sign a pre or
post-nuptial agreement even if they wanted one.
With wedding season quickly
approaching, 10% of unmarried Americans reported that they are planning on
getting married in the next year. Of those who plan to marry in the
next year, they are more likely to be younger (16% <35 years old) and,
interestingly, more likely to be college educated (17% college education or
higher).
ABOUT THE POLL
The Money/ICR poll was conducted by
telephone with a nationally representative sample of 1,016 Americans, of
which 608 were married or plan to be within the next year,
during February 15th 19th, 2006. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.07
percentage points for the total sample of 1,016 adults and 3.97
percentage points for the married or plan to be within the next year sample of
608.
The poll was conducted using ICRs telephone omnibus survey of adults
age 18 and over. ICR is one of the nation's leading market and opinion
research firms and is headquartered in Media,
PA. For more information on this
methodology please go to: http://www.icrsurvey.com.
MONEY, published by Time Inc., is the nations largest financial
publication with a circulation of 1.9 million and a total readership over 7
million.
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