Premarital sex and divorce

Liberals, leftists and atheists have consistently gotten divorced at higher rates than social conservatives, which some say strains the sanctity of marriage.

For more information, please see: Atheism and divorce

According to the abstract for the 2024 journal article Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce published in the journal Journal of Family Issues:

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Premarital sex predicts divorce, but we do not know why. Scholars have attributed the relationship to factors such as differences in beliefs and values, but these explanations have not been tested. It is further unclear how this relationship changes by number of sexual partners, or differs by gender. We re-examine this relationship with event history models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Models include measures of adolescent beliefs and values, religious background, and personal characteristics, as well as approximate number of premarital sexual partners in young adulthood. We find the relationship between premarital sex and divorce is highly significant and robust even when accounting for early-life factors. Compared to people with no premarital partners other than eventual spouses, those with nine or more partners exhibit the highest divorce risk, followed by those with one to eight partners. There is no evidence of gender differences.

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External links

• Testing Common Theories on the Relationship Between Premarital Sex and Marital Stability, Institute for Family Studies, 2023
• What premarital sex has to do with divorce — and other takeaways from marriage research, Deseret News, 2021
• Counterintuitive Trends in the Link Between Premarital Sex and Marital Stability, Institute for Family Studies, 2016