Study: Virgin Brides Have More Stable Marriages

Someone mentioned a study by the Heritage Foundation in a previous post. Here’s an excerpt:

A few years ago Robert Rector and Kirk Johnson of the Heritage Foundation did an analysis of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth and found that for women 30 or older those who were monogamous (only one sexual partner in a lifetime) were by far most likely to be still in a stable relationship (80 percent). Sleeping with just one extra partner dropped that probability to 54 percent. Two extra partners brought it down to 44 percent. Who would have thought that the price of sleeping with even one partner would lead to divorce for almost half of those who had only one extra tryst?

Heritage

You can read the whole article here:
Heritage.org: Virgins Make the Best Valentines