seeingeyes
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I'd be really curious to see a study of a social group with an environment conditioned by
1. a state with no-fault divorce
and
2. a church that strongly discourages divorce for any reason other than abuse or infidelity
with the study aiming at finding any correlation between premarital sex (or not) and divorce (or not).
Essentially, the question would be: Is there any correlation between rates of premarital sex and rates of divorce, and for what reasons, among churchgoing persons who largely do not believe in no-fault divorce but may practice it?
Someone contact the Harvard Sociology Department.
These numbers are good for the number crunchers, but I think that divorce is not the definition of a failed marriage, rather it is one possible result of a failed marriage. There are other possible results of a failed marriage that simply aren't so easily calculated.
On the whole, though (in our culture anyway), premarital sex seems to make divorce rates go down. That's to be expected when fewer people get married in the first place.
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