A new study has found that women with between zero and one sexual partner are the least likely to divorce later on, with women who had 10 or more partners emerging as the most likely to see their marriages end, according to the Institute for Family Studies.
Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth that was collected in 2002, 2006-2010 and 2011-2013, researchers observed these trends, with the potential ties emerging between the total number of sexual partners and matrimonial dissolutions.
“Earlier research found that having multiple sex partners prior to marriage could lead to less happy marriages, and often increased the odds of divorce,” Professor Nicholas Wolfinger wrote in a blog post that announced the analysis. “But sexual attitudes and behaviors continue to change in America, and some of the strongest predictors of divorce in years gone by no longer matter as much as they once did...
Eleven percent of virgin marriages (on the part of the woman, at least) in the 1980s dissolved within five years. This number fell to 8 percent in the 1990s, then fell again to 6 percent in the 2000s,” Wolfinger explained. “For all three decades, the women with the second lowest five-year divorce rates are those who had only one partner prior to marriage...
I think, especially as we move forward across the decades looked at here, this is most likely not causal, but correlated because both are caused by actual adherence to a moral code that encourages not sleeping around prior to marriage and discourages divorce. In the 1970s, you're going to see some more effects of social pressure/expectation.
American women who abstain from sex before marriage are the most likely to remain married after five years.
But divorce is also less likely when a bride has had sex with between three and nine men before her wedding day, according to a new study from University of Utah professor Nicholas Wolfinger.
"In short, if you're going to have comparisons to your [future] husband," Wolfinger said in a prepared statement, "it's best to have more than one."
Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth, Wolfinger researched premarital sex and divorce trends for women in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
I think, especially as we move forward across the decades looked at here, this is most likely not causal, but correlated because both are caused by actual adherence to a moral code that encourages not sleeping around prior to marriage and discourages divorce. In the 1970s, you're going to see some more effects of social pressure/expectation.
I have seen every kind of study showing completely different correlations.
My advice? Do what you think is best for you personally. Don't live your life based on studies.
I think, especially as we move forward across the decades looked at here, this is most likely not causal, but correlated because both are caused by actual adherence to a moral code that encourages not sleeping around prior to marriage and discourages divorce. In the 1970s, you're going to see some more effects of social pressure/expectation.
It won’t be surprising to most readers that people with more premarital sex partners have higher divorce rates, broadly speaking. That said, this research brief paints a fairly complicated picture of the association between sex and marital stability that ultimately raises more questions than it answers.
Yay, more slut shaming! Because dontcha know that the responsibility for good marriages rests entirely on women respecting man's right to own their vaginas, whereas men can behave however they want without being surveilled and browbeaten for their every choice?
oh jesus christ....is this some kinda "conservative" puritan moral bullcrap piece????
Hardly anybody anywhere in history had one one sex partner in their life. Nor did they abstain before marriage.
And men?
Actually, if you'll bother to read the math linked in the OP, it was a minority, but it was a larger minority.
I, for example, have only ever slept with my wife, and that's precisely what I intend to teach my children.
Oh boy...a sample size of one. :roll:
Look, the rise in divorce rates has nothing to do with number of sex partners, or pre-marital sex. That's just idiotic.
Freedom is what has escalated divorce.
Divorce isn't a social stigma now.
Unhappy and married is worse for society and "the institution of marriage" than happy and divorced.
Many people get married for the wrong reasons, with the wrong expectations, and to the wrong person.
What is different now, and thankfully so, is that it's easier to get out of the bad marriage.
It's got NOTHING to do with what the crap you posted suggests.
I think, especially as we move forward across the decades looked at here, this is most likely not causal, but correlated because both are caused by actual adherence to a moral code that encourages not sleeping around prior to marriage and discourages divorce. In the 1970s, you're going to see some more effects of social pressure/expectation.
I think, especially as we move forward across the decades looked at here, this is most likely not causal, but correlated because both are caused by actual adherence to a moral code that encourages not sleeping around prior to marriage and discourages divorce. In the 1970s, you're going to see some more effects of social pressure/expectation.
I think, especially as we move forward across the decades looked at here, this is most likely not causal, but correlated because both are caused by actual adherence to a moral code that encourages not sleeping around prior to marriage and discourages divorce. In the 1970s, you're going to see some more effects of social pressure/expectation.
they could predict which marriages would end in divorce 93% of the time.
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