Frauen, die häufig Gottesdienste besuchen oder einer konservativen Konfession angehören, heirateten am häufigsten, bevor sie mit einem Partner zusammenlebten oder ein Kind zur Welt brachten.
Frequent church attendance strongly predicts whether a woman will marry before having a child
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Living with a partner and giving birth are very different factors. Why are they combined?
„people who belong to a specific social group most likely to adhere to the behavior restrictions prescribed by that group“
WOW really
Very understandable, there is a heavy emphasis to either abort or cover up pre-marriage pregnancies, and more and more liberal sects are more tolerant of “living in sin”
Some religious people follow the rules of their religion. Not even science.
Frequent church attendance strongly predicts whether a woman will marry before having a child
An analysis of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data investigated the types of family-forming transitions people experience. They found that women who attend religious services frequently or belong to a conservative denomination were the most likely to marry before cohabiting with a partner or giving birth. The paper was published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Family-forming events are life events through which people create, expand, or redefine a family unit. They usually include marriage, cohabitation, and childbirth. Decades ago, most U.S. women married without ever having cohabited. However, more recently, approximately 75% of young women live with their partner sometime in young adulthood. Many also give birth to a child before entering into a union with a partner.
What a person’s first family-forming event will be depends on many factors. These include cultural norms, personal values, relationship opportunities, education, and various life circumstances. One important factor is religion. Many religions encourage early marriage and discourage cohabitation and nonmarital births.
Religious denominations that were considered conservative included Baptist, Holiness (Nazarene, Wesleyan, Free Methodist), Pentecostal (Assembly of God, Pentecostal Holiness), Nondenominational Christian (including Bible Church), Mormon (LDS), Orthodox Jewish, and Muslim.
Results showed that only 14% of participating women had marriage as their first family-forming event. Of the women who married before cohabiting or giving birth, 51% reported attending religious services at least once a week in their youth. Among women who reported cohabiting first, only 20% attended religious services at least once a week. This percentage was 23% among women who had a birth first (i.e., before either marriage or cohabitation).
Of the women who married first, 49% belonged to a conservative denomination, compared to 29% of those who cohabited first. (Interestingly, 47% of women who gave birth first also belonged to a conservative religion). Overall, women belonging to conservative religious denominations and those attending religious services frequently were more likely to marry before cohabiting or giving birth, and to do so at an earlier age—typically around age 22 or 23, compared to ages 24 to 27 for those who cohabited or had a birth first.
Importantly, the researchers found that while religion delays the age of first sexual intercourse, it does not prevent premarital sex for the vast majority of women. Among the women who married first, 82% still had sex before marriage. Overall, more than 90% of highly religious women and 94% of women in conservative denominations reported having premarital sex. Because religion was found to encourage marriage even after women become sexually active, the authors suggest that religious communities instill strong “pro-marriage” cultural ideals that go beyond simply prohibiting premarital sex.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jssr.70016
What’s with this wave of nonsense „studies“ trying to make religious/conservative values more appealing? Seems like every time this sub pops up in my feed it’s one of these, and it’s always garbage.
you should 100 percent live with someone for a while before getting married. you learn a lot about someone when living with them
It’s almost like that’s one of the main functions of religion
Edit: I’ll elaborate since I see my comment can be taken either way. Most religions base their standards of modesty and views on premarital sex entirely around a man’s desire to have a naive virgin as their wife.
Hell, Mormonism was literally created so Joseph Smith can practice polygamy without needing his wife’s approval
As someone who has lived with my partner for 10+ years and is not married. The idea of marrying someone before you have ever lived with them seems completely insane to me.
Which demographic of women/girls is most likely to get pregnant before marrying or cohabiting?
No kidding … like, really? This got funding and my epigenetic research can’t get any dollars?
I like the qualifier: „give birth“ versus „get pregnant.“
So… How many out-of-wedlock pregnancies, aka „shotgun weddings,“ were captured by the data?
This is news? How is anyone shocked by this?
I took a Sexuality within Christianity course in college. There was an unmarried couple in there that vigorously defended their choice to wait until marriage before having sex. It was beyond frustrating engaging in any sort of debate with them because despite admittedly having no experience in the sexual realm they were very fully confident in arguing their position (which I’m sure was going to be missionary only).
And sometimes they end up in an episode of Dateline/48 Hours.
Conservative Christians have the highest divorce And remarriage rate among religious people. This data correlates to a cause. It would follow that people who don’t know each other well enough In their daily routines and sexual preferences who then choose to spend the rest of their lives together in a world that is forgiving of divorce and remarriage are likely to get divorced and remarried.
The irony is that The majority of Christianity, according to its holy book And 2,000 year history, forbids divorce and remarriage. The Catholic church and other older churches like many of the Orthodox churches, follow this Well-Established law from the Old and New testament and forbid The practice.
Non-Catholic and non-orthodox Conservative Christians are much more willing to accept it.
„Women who attend religious services frequently or belong to a conservative denomination were the most likely“ … to be minimally unhappily dissatisfied with sex for the rest of their lives, if not feeling like they were getting raped for the rest of their lives.
Oh, good decision, permanently hooking up with someone when you don’t even know if you’re sexually compatible. Idiots.
Most religious laws, especially in the Christian faith, forbid you to have sex before marriage.
Call me stupid, but I do not really see anything „new“ here. The same way how we adhere to local laws or the rules at our school or occupation, people who practice a religion would also follow rules.
“People who follow religion more likely to live according to the rules of that religion.”
Wow. Super insightful.
I’ve heard about this on obvious FM. People reading this comment are statistically significantly more likely to be redditors than not
Groundbreaking stuff really
I cohabitated but we waited five years after marriage to give birth. I might as well have married him . We had to get a get because we cohabitated anyway. So might as well get the fancy party too.