IOWA CITY, June 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A University of Iowa study has found that women who first engage in sex as young teens are more likely to divorce.Read more here.
Published in the April issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family, the analysis found that 31 percent of women who had sex for the first time as teens divorced within five years of getting married, and 47 percent divorced within 10 years. The divorce rate for women who delayed sex until adulthood was far lower: 15 percent at five years, and 27 percent at 10 years.
Author Anthony Paik, associate professor of sociology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, examined the responses of 3,793 ever-married women to the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth.
A first sexual experience that was unwanted or not completely wanted was strongly associated with divorce. If the young woman chose to lose her virginity as a teen, the results were more nuanced.
When the first intercourse took place early in adolescence - before the age of 16 - the women were more likely to divorce, even if that first sexual experience was wanted.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Teen sex leading to divorce?
A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family says yes:
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The fact that enough women were raped as teenagers to be a statistically significant part of this study is extremely disturbing. We need to educate men about consent.
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