Posted on 08/18/2015 7:40:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republicans are more likely to be married, less likely to divorce, and are more likely to be happy in their marriage than Democrats, sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Nicholas Wolfinger have discovered.
Fifty-seven percent of Republicans are married, compared to 40 percent of Democrats; 41 percent of ever-married Republicans have been divorced, compared to 47 percent of ever-married Democrats; and, 67 percent of married Republicans say they are in "very happy" marriages, compared to 60 percent of married Democrats, they reported for Family Studies, the blog of the Institute for Family Studies.
The research looked at 20 to 60 year olds from 2010 to 2014 in the General Social Survey, one of the largest yearly surveys of Americans.
Wilcox and Wolfinger, co-authors of the forthcoming Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos, did the research in response to a July 15 Bloomberg View op-ed by Noah Smith, assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University.
Smith argued that the sexual permissiveness and non-traditional gender roles of liberals made marriages stronger.
"What if sexual permissiveness and feminism, instead of being toxic to the institution of marriage, are the key to saving it?
"... If you wait until marriage to have sex, you're taking an enormous risk. What if you're not compatible? Or what if you regret not having shopped around?
"Sexual permissiveness means that sex isn't about marriage. But that means that marriage isn't about sex. Most of the upper-class liberal educated Americans I know who are in stable, happy marriages had their share of premarital sex. ...
"Feminism may be even more important for families. ... Feminism ... rewards fathers for sharing child care and housework, and frees them from the heavy burden of antiquated expectations.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
The key to marriage is the woman. A happy marriage is one with a wife who embraces her true femininity, loves being a woman, knows her value, and loves honoring her husband as her head and her role in raising her children and loving her husband.
Don’t need to go much further than that really I don’t think.
Not surprising. The ungodly are not as blessed as those who love God and follow his blueprint for living as found in the Bible. “Godliness with contentment is great gain.” (1Timothy 6:6)
Scheech, have you ever looked at the photos of Democratic Women next to Republicans? No wonder Dems don’t stay married, who’d want to wake up next to Hitlery or Nancy P every morning!!! Seems they are always angery at something or someone and that rubs off.
And related to what you have said, if the mother is happy, everybody’s happy. If the mother isn’t happy, nobody’s happy.
"What if racial discrimination and segregation, instead of being toxic to the well-being of society, are the key to saving it?"
"What if gravity was directed in a single direction?"
democrats marry?
You can’t be a real Republican and not have morals.
.. If you wait until marriage to have sex, you’re taking an enormous risk. What if you’re not compatible? Or what if you regret not having shopped around?
I’m not sure I even understand what they are talking about here. Compatibility grows over time in that area of life, and others. As long as everyone has the proper mindset, and the proper opposite sex bodies together, I think couples will work things out. If that makes sense. Because as noted, not really sure what they were trying to say about some benefit of sleeping around before marriage.
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