Premarital Sex and Divorce
A new research article reaffirms previous research that the relationship between premarital sex and divorce is highly significant and robust. Compared to people with no premarital partners other than eventual spouses, those with six or more partners exhibit the highest divorce risk, followed by those with one to two partners. There is no evidence of gender differences. (Read whole research article at https://osf.io/preprints/
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