for divorce rates of people that have premarital sex and for those who don't? Thanks.
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Can someone find the statistics...
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"...Research indicates that couples who cohabit before marriage have a 50 percent higher divorce rate than those who don't..."
Taken from:
http://www.marriageromance.com/stories/10802697703.htm
I did find other stats, most were wishy washy with exact percentages, but generally the findings were the same: Pre-marital sex couples are more likely to have a divorce.
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Although, it technically puts me in a minority according to these stats, I think my premarital sex has kept my marrage strong. I think that if I hadn't lived out most of my non-manogomous sexual fantacies before marrage, I'd still be very tempted to seek them out after marrage.Now, I work on living out my fantacies that fit within manogomy
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About www.marriageromance.com...In reply to: We allow anonymous discussions and descriptions of marriage intimacy in writings because "God made sex for marriage" and God wants people to associate the pleasures of sex with marriage ... and so writings with any intimate content are classified as either romantic or passionate.Dude, do you realize that the site you pointed to is for people who are willing to pay to read romance stories that people post, and is run by folks with an evangelical Christian bias?In reply to:Another study showed that even if they do marry, couples who begin their marriages through cohabitation are almost twice as likely to divorce within 10 years compared to all first marriages: 57 percent to 80 percent.”(Psychological) Karl Gamwell, founder of MarriageRomance.com, who has coached hundreds of married couples in the past three years says this about those who ask for counseling, “I would estimate over 90 percent of marriage partners who end up being unfaithful, engaged in sex before marriage.”(Gamwell)Do you accept this because it's not "wishy-washy"? First of all, Gamwell's casual observation shouldn't be confused with anything scientific. And the other reference leads to a site that says at the top: ""The mission of the Christian scholar is...redemptive and transformative."Did you understand the bias of what you were pointing to? Do you have any non-biblical statistics to point to? Or is it possible that there are no good statistics, which never stopped someone with a religious point of view from making things up and presenting that as fact?Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
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Yeah - everyone is an individual, so I don't take too much notice of these kinds of stats, especially if they're closely balanced.I think for many couples it has ensured a strong marriage.I'm not there yet, but if we're all still hanging around here in 10 years I'll let you know and have a link to this post!
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I believe I've encountered such statistics from a peer-reviewed journal. I'll see if I can find them.
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I dont think premature sex has alot to do with getting divorced. Its how much you turst and love each other.
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What if I showed you statistics that proved otherwise?
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It's important not to assume that correlation means causation. Couples that live together before marriage are probably different, on average, in their general attitudes to marriage from couples who don't.Especially, couples who avoid sex before marriage are more likely to consider marriage as something that is for life. The two are related, therefore, but one is not causing the other; rather, both are the result of religious views.
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Here is a pointer to an article that summarizes a recent (2003) Penn State study on that topic:http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-08/ps-ltb080403.phpThe study was called "The Relationship Between Cohabitation and Marital Quality and Stability: Change Across Cohorts?," and was published in the Journal of Marriage and the Family. To quote the article: Claire M. Kamp Dush, doctoral candidate in human development and family studies, is first author of the study. She says, "It had been consistently shown in the past that, contrary to the popular belief that living together will improve a person's ability to choose a marriage partner and stay married, the opposite is actually the case".niceguy44
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I'd like to see the actual study. A lot of interpretation goes into studies like this, and it is just a single study. As Ineligible says, correlation does not necessarily imply cause. But these two paragraphs of the summary were interesting:In reply to: Although all the reasons why cohabitation and troubled unions are related remains unknown, the researchers report that their data and a review of the literature suggest that both personal characteristics and the experience of cohabitation play important roles.The Penn State team notes that research indicates that people choose riskier partners when cohabiting because they think cohabitation will be easier to break up than marriage. However, once a couple is living together, the fact that they share possessions, pets, and children and have invested time in their relationship may propel them to marry.