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Re:What do premarital experiences have to do with marital qu... by FalconSensei on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:51PM (#39031769)
From the institute that funded it:

> ideals in which Mr. Simon believed – access to an excellent education, promoting strong families, and the importance of faith and patriotism.

IDK, I will always be suspicious or this type of study being done with any ties to religion, since religion usually tends to want people to live separate and in abstinence before marriage. What if they found out that living together and having sex with multiple partners correlated with more happy marriages?

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Re:What do premarital experiences have to do with marital qu... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @02:16PM (#39032086)
Their conclusions are nearly identical to secular research on this topic.
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Re:What do premarital experiences have to do with marital qu... by n9 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @04:19PM (#39033631)
I don't think so. Here is the first sentance of a highly-cited (secular) piece on the same kind of data:

"Premarital sex predicts divorce, but we do not know why."

That last part makes all the difference in the world.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0192513X231155673

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Re:What do premarital experiences have to do with marital qu... by wooque on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @02:44PM (#39032448)
It's not the only study done on this topic.
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