It can greatly increase the divorce rate if the gambler is in addiction and does not care about his family at all, he has only one thing in mind and that is to gamble no matter what. Very few women if any would accept such reckless behavior and normally the amount of divorce would only grow by such persons, I know a lot of such persons who had a married life, happily married life and they lost every thing because of addiction to gambling. I was addicted myself but not to the point to not care about my family and thinking about my daughter brought me into stopping massive amounts of money thrown into slot machines.
Yeah that's true, there's a level whereby a gambler addiction would reach, at that point all their income would be for satisfying their addiction, some even go to the extent of selling properties just to gamble, not all spouse would tolerate that, and even though they've been tolerating it for long, at some point they'll get tired and file for a divorce. People who are supposed to be more careful concerning gambling to avoid addiction are those who are married cause the have more better responsibilities to take care of and getting addicted to gambling shouldn't be an agenda since it could destroy their family.