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To: MichiganConservative
Being of a culture and/or religion where promiscuity and cohabitation are unacceptable is correlated with lower rates of divorce.

Not being of such a culture or religion, your options are limited, as they usually do not “allow” (yes parental permission is often a factor among such cultures) their daughters to marry outsiders.

Come back when you find a study that compares people of the same level of religious devotion and culture, and their rates of promiscuity and cohabitation and how they correlate to divorce and you MAY have a leg to stand on.

As it is correlation is not causation. Amusing that you agree to that principle, and then immediately ignore it.

If you are from a culture where promiscuity and cohabitation are acceptable, you will be more likely to get divorced if you marry that people from a culture where promiscuity and cohabitation are not acceptable.

Among those who are from a more sexualized culture and do NOT engage in promiscuity or cohabitation - are their rates of divorce actually lower - The study as designed has no way of showing that.

38 posted on 09/17/2010 3:06:26 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: allmendream
Among those who are from a more sexualized culture and do NOT engage in promiscuity or cohabitation ...

Can you give an example of such a culture?

40 posted on 09/17/2010 3:12:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("A little plain food, and a philosophic temperament, are the only necessities of life."~W. Churchill)
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To: allmendream
This is what the excerpt says:

The most salient finding from this analysis is that women whose intimate premarital relationships are limited to their husbands—either premarital sex alone or premarital cohabitation—do not experience an increased risk of divorce.

If you are from a culture where promiscuity and cohabitation are acceptable, you will be more likely to get divorced if you marry that people from a culture where promiscuity and cohabitation are not acceptable.

OK Fine. Uh, I don't actually think cohabitation is necessarily the cause of the later divorce.

I just think the correlation between the women who are sluttier and the women who are more divorce prone is interesting. I actually think there's a cause for both and that cohabitation and divorce are outcomes of it.

The correlation of slutty behavior - not just cohabitation, but also sexual partner count - to higher divorce rate is of value in and of itself. It can be used to teach you stay away from sluts for marriage. I didn't need to know the cause of AIDS to know that the correlation between homosex and AIDS meant I should stay away from homosex.(That was among other reasons.)

Come back when you find a study that compares people of the same level of religious devotion and culture, and their rates of promiscuity and cohabitation and how they correlate to divorce and you MAY have a leg to stand on.

No. I don't care to. I find the correlation interesting.

Something caused the women to be slutty. Something caused them to want to get divorced. They seem to be found in common in certain women. Good to know!

Among those who are from a more sexualized culture and do NOT engage in promiscuity or cohabitation - are their rates of divorce actually lower - The study as designed has no way of showing that.

The study was of people in the US. I'm in the US. It's a pretty corrupt culture.

57 posted on 09/17/2010 4:57:37 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (A government big enough to do unto the people you don't like will get to doing unto you soon enough.)
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