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Over at the Institute for Family Studies, Nicholas Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are most likely to report being in a “very happy” marriage. Meanwhile, the lowest odds of marital happiness—about 13 percentage points lower than the one-partner women—belong to women who have had six to 10 sexual partners in their lives. For men, there’s still a dip in marital satisfaction after one partner, but it’s never as low as it gets for women,... (Skip) In an earlier analysis, Wolfinger found that women with zero...

A NEW breed of educated women has discovered the secret of a happy marriage — opting to stay at home instead of pursuing a career. The phenomenon, in which wives prefer their husbands to be the main breadwinner, has been identified by American sociologists and is now gaining a foothold in Britain. Unlike the housewives of the 1950s, who had little choice over rearing children and acting as homemaker, this generation of women is building on the advances of the feminist movement to determine their optimum lifestyle. The women are predominantly drawn from the middle classes and have young offspring....

Hillary's Marital Fidelity Claim Challenged Former Arkansas State Trooper L.D. Brown has challenged U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton's claim yesterday that she has always remained faithful to her husband, ex-president Bill Clinton. The senator was pressed on her own record of marital fidelity during a book signing at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble. At first she declined to answer the question, but then insisted, "Yes." However, three years ago, Brown, a now-retired lawman who guarded Mrs. Clinton in the 1980s, revealed in his own book, "Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation," that she once tried to proposition him. "I have struggled...