{"id":228246,"date":"2025-10-21T01:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228246\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:52:20","slug":"affairs-and-drugs-among-the-least-acceptable-actions-in-canada-research-co-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228246\/","title":{"rendered":"Affairs and drugs among the least acceptable actions in Canada: Research Co. poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Contraception, divorce and pre-marital relations have the largest levels of moral acceptability across the country.<\/p>\n

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FEWER than one-in-five Canadians think marital infidelity and the use of illegal drugs can be characterized as \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d behaviours, a new Research Co. poll has found.<\/p>\n

The online survey of a representative national sample asked Canadians whether they considered 21 different issues as \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d or \u201cmorally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fewer than one-in-four Canadians believe seven of the issues tested are \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d: polygamy (21%, +4 since a similar Research Co. poll\u00a0conducted in June 2024<\/a>), suicide (20%, +3), cloning animals (19%, =), married men and\/or women having an affair (18%, +2), using illegal drugs (also 18%, +4), cloning humans (12%, -1) and paedophilia (8%, +3).<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost one-in-four Canadian men (23%) think marital infidelity is morally acceptable,\u201d says Mario Canseco, President of Research Co. \u201cThe proportion is decidedly lower (13%) among Canadian women.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a significant regional divide on this question. Practically one-in-four Quebecers (24%) have no moral qualms about married people having an affair. Fewer than one-in-five residents of all other regions feel the same way.<\/p>\n

Two-in-five Canadians (40%, =) think the death penalty is \u201cmorally acceptable.\u201d Fewer Canadians feel the same way about four other issues: buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur (38%, +4), pornography (31%, +3), prostitution (28%, +3) and medical testing on animals (25%, +2).<\/p>\n

While almost half of Canadian men (46%) think it is \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d to buy and wear clothing made of animal fur, only 30% of Canadian women concur.<\/p>\n

At least half of Canadians think five other issues are \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d: abortion (56%, -2), medical research using stem cells obtained from human embryos (55%, =), physician-assisted death (54%, -3), sexual relations between two people of the same sex (also 54%, -1) and gambling (50%, +1).<\/p>\n

Gambling is regarded as a \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d practice by majorities of Canadians whose origins are East Asian (60%) or Indigenous (56%). The proportions are decidedly lower among Canadians of European (30%) or South Asian (22%) heritage.<\/p>\n

The four issues that find the largest levels of moral acceptability across Canada are all related to human interaction: contraception (73%, -3), divorce (70%, -2), sexual relations between an unmarried man and woman (67%, -3) and having a baby outside of marriage (62%, -5).<\/p>\n

Methodology:\u00a0Results are based on an online survey conducted from September 10 to September 12, 2025, among 1,003 adults in Canada. The data has been statistically weighted according to Canadian census figures for age, gender and region in Canada. The margin of error\u2014which measures sample variability\u2014is +\/- 3.1 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contraception, divorce and pre-marital relations have the largest levels of moral acceptability across the country. \u00a0 FEWER than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,108984,44,108985,108986,39],"class_list":["post-228246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-morally-acceptable","tag-news","tag-research-co","tag-research-co-poll","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}