Gen X is least prone to adultery

Times of India ^ | 12/26/07 | ANI

[AmericaUnited]

Gen X is least prone to adultery

Well duh! It's hard to commit adultery unless you get married...

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

I was born in 1969, had many partners between 16 and 26

How does your wife handle that? Not that I was a saint between those ages. Just curious. Or have you told her.

[Grut]

It’s very strange that a demographic group, even one as f-ed up and self-centered as the boomers, failed in their marriages in such large percentages.

This is off the top of my head (too lazy to go look it up) but I seem to recall that most baby boomers have successful marriages; the divorce score is run up by divorcers who marry again, divorce again, marry again, divorce again... and amass 'failed marriages' out of all proportion to their numbers.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The new research shows that adultery is less common among people born between 1965 and 1985.

I fall in this demographic, and I have to think that the low marriage rate in this demographic has to play a large part in this statistic. Can't commit adultery if you aren't married.

I'm no expert on demographics anyway, but someone born in 1965 could easily be the parent of someone born in 1985. How can two generations be categorized as if they are the same? Wouldn't 10 year slices make more sense and provide more accurate data?

[AZLiberty]

Many in that generation didn’t marry until 30, so that already reduces the opportunity for adultery by half.

[WOBBLY BOB]

call me skeptical or just pessimistic, but I think it’s more likely due to all the VD and AIDS now days.

I still think people are as loyal as their options and their risk/reward ratio.

[rbg81]

Exactly—you can’t commit adultery if you are not married.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The spirit of Generation X expresses itself again.

Baby Boomers versus Bawling Babies

If one took these threads too seriously, he could be forgiven for concluding that "Generation X" is the most most whining, self-centered, immature generation the world has ever seen.

[gracesdad]

Gosh, I thought us baby boomers had absolutely ruined that generation, morally and otherwise.

[Liberty2007]

I dont think this is accurate.I am a Gen x’r and most of my peers seem to be engaging in adultery...or maybe the article is true, its not adultery they just divorce and remarry real quick.

[doorgunner69]

I figure it’s that dreary, depressing grunge music they listen too: that’s take the starch out of anybody............

[Melas]

I’m calling Bravo Sierra on this one. I don’t believe a word.

[Melas]

Perhaps the X generation will adopt a more monogamous attitude than we think possible.

Will adopt? The youngest X'ers are pushing 30, and the oldest are middle aged. They've adopted whatever they're going to adopt years ago. You're confusing Gen X with Gen Y, your daughter's generation.

[hoe_cake]

thank you for the clarification. You are correct.

[ravensandricks]

She knows about it, but it’s not the sort of thing we’ve discussed in any great detail since we first started dating more than 10 years ago. Once in a blue moon I’ll get on a “back in the day” kick and she’s mostly amused by it.

[ravensandricks]

Are you a boomer? Part of the generation that’s mostly past 50 and still trying to “find themselves”?

[bvw]

But God Was Dead by then.

DOA 1965. Making the killers to be the idea leaders at the time, that makes them the generation born 1915-1935. The children of FDR and the grandchildren of Woodrow Wilson. The so called "Greatest Generation".

[bvw]

Link prior may be bad.

Around 1965. See alternate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead

[Mr. Jeeves]

How did this thread confuse sex with Cheating?

Common enough malady on Free Republic, the Internet home of the world's largest chapter of Male Baptist Virgins Anonymous. ;)

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Are you a boomer? Part of the generation that’s mostly past 50 and still trying to “find themselves”?

By the nonsensical artificial divisions, I would be a boomer.

I am not past 50 yet, but there's no sin in that either.

I am not trying to find myself, neither am I taken in by silly leftist pop sociology that seeks to ID and characterize groups of people.

Leftists assign guilt and praise according to group identity, true conservatives look at individuals.