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Reality stars Jon and Kate Gosselin have also made headlines recently for their marital woes. Do you think people in the public eye tend to cheat more often than the rest of us, or do we just hear about their indiscretions more frequently? Based on all the studies I've seen, roughly half of all marriages will be touched by an affair at some point. The prevalence of affairs is a function of two things: less-than-happy marriages and opportunity. And these celebrities have many more opportunities than most people. (See the top 10 skanky reality TV shows...
...Gosselin, Mady •complaint of thirst to mother of results in stunning spectacle of said mother procuring a bottle of water, drinking some herself, and recapping the bottle without offering...
...economy, the shows have a hot-button appeal. Today TLC's shows make literal a cold truth: that deciding how many kids to have is about not just love but also money. (One side effect of the recession: vasectomies have skyrocketed.) No-nonsense Kate Gosselin of Jon & Kate--who had twins, then sextuplets, through fertility treatments--puts it plainly: "The cost of everything times eight is ridiculous." The Gosselins have defrayed those costs through corporate freebies--bikes, toys, personal services--and, of course, the show, which, Kate told Ladies' Home Journal, is "our family job." When hubby...
...Family Album, on which an Arkansas couple flaunts their 17 (!) children, or the same network's Jon & Kate Plus 8 (more like Jon & Kate Plus 8 Plus The People They're Reportedly Having Affairs With) sell the idea of multiples as special. In the case of Jon and Kate Gosselin, who gave birth to a set of twins and a set of sextuplets, they were doubly blessed. Even before the TV show, their Pennsylvania community kicked in with financial, material and moral support. Such warmth and attention can drive people to extremes, though. In August 2006, a Missouri couple admitted...
...Economic changes over the past three decades - many the result of government decisions - have "left working families up and down much of the income spectrum living with fewer economic protections, bearing more economic risk, chancing steeper financial falls," writes Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Gosselin in his new book High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families. This Great Risk Shift from governments and corporations to individuals, as Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker labeled it in the title of another book on the subject, has become one of the defining economic realities of our age. Some aspects...