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Re:Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet by make3 on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:22AM (#18094123)
Source please on your claim that no sex before marriage leads to longer lasting marriages. That sounds like the kind of thing conservatives would make up without data to back themselves up. Also, even if it were true, longer lasting mariage doesn't mean happy marriage

Also I'm talking about nowadays, where people can have sex before marriage without having to become outcasts in their community or risk pregnancy (with protection. there is ofc still a risk, but it's much lower)

Getting married just to have sex when you could just have sex and then pick a partner when you really know them & not because you are horny seems like a wiser thing to do

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Re:Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet by ummonk on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:48AM (#18094349)
It's true. You can run the numbers on data from e.g. the NSFG. It's probably not causation but just a sign of religiosity (and hence unwillingness to divorce), though.
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Re:Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet by gooseifer on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:47AM (#18094340)
Not the original poster, but I've seen it cited before.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/counterintuitive-trends-in-the-li...

Which uses data from the CDC NSFG.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/nsfg_cycle6.htm

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Re:Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet by make3 on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:51AM (#18094385)
yeah, this is possibly mostly a correlation with people being in religious groups were marriage is very frowned upon. you would expect that if sex before marriage is frowned upon, divorce is too
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