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83% of Kenyans thinks it's morally wrong for married people to have affairs – survey

11% of Kenyans think it is morally acceptable for married people to have affairs.

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by SHARON MWENDE

News28 December 2023 - 14:43
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In Summary


  • Six per cent do not have an opinion or do not care about the topic.

  • Of those between ages 18 to 24 years, 84 per cent think that married people should avoid affairs 

Is it morally wrong for married men and women to have an affair? 83 per cent of Kenyans think so.

This is according to the Kenya National Social Research 2023 by Radio Africa Limited's Research Department.

The omnibus survey conducted between June 29 and July 11, 2023, however, shows that 11 per cent of Kenyans think that it is morally acceptable for married people to have affairs.

Six per cent do not have an opinion or do not care about the topic.

Of those between ages 18 to 24 years, 84 per cent think that married people should avoid affairs while 10 per cent think that affairs when one is married are morally acceptable.

Six per cent of respondents in the above age group do not care of the morality of the subject.

This is opposed to eight per cent of Kenyans between age groups 25 to 29, and 30 to 34, who do not care about the same.

81 per cent of Kenyans between 25 and 29 years old say it is morally wrong with 11 per cent agreeing to affairs among married women and men.

In the latter age bracket, 80 per cent of Kenyans are opposed to married people having affairs while 12 per cent think the behavior is morally acceptable.

During the research, the legality of the issue was not in question.

With issues like having a baby outside marriage, 62 per cent of Kenyans think it is morally wrong while 28 per cent see no immorality with it.

Sixty per cent of Kenyans view divorce as an immoral thing to do while 29 per cent is okay with it. 

The survey was conducted among 3,000 respondents aged 18 years and above across all 47 counties with a sampling error of +/-1.8 percent.

The data was collected through Computer Aided Telephone Interview (CATI) with the survey being conducted in both English and Kiswahili.

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