Thread by @DevonShapiro

Thread on family dynamics, papers are primarily from The Journal of Family and Marriage, but may also be from other sociology journals.

The intent to wait till marriage is what determines marital stability. Virgins who do not intend on waiting till marriage but are virgins at marriage also have similar divorce rates than those that commit adultery.
jstor.org/stable/352992

Women who have more than 1 sexual partner are more likely to get divorced, get depressed, be unhappy and get STDs
cdc.gov/nchs/data/seri…

Engaging in pre-marital sexual behavior and cohabitation before marriage leads to pre-marital sex and higher rates of divorce. People raised in nonintact families are also more likely to have higher divorce rates.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

More religious people have higher marital stability, and are more happy. Those who went to church less often or not at all were more likely to get divorced and be unhappy and would not marry their spouse if given another chance.
jstor.org/stable/23027992

More members of the opposite sex in the work place results in higher divorce rates. Men are more likely to get divorced if there are women of a similar age at work. Women also had a slightly higher divorce rate if there were similar age men at their work

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Being married results in better health, finances, and happiness compared to single people or non-married couples who cohabit.

jstor.org/stable/353867

Children of single-parents preform academically worse than those of intact families. Single parents are less involved in child's education. Single mothers lack financial support and single fathers lack parenting resources.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Children who do not have their fathers are more likely to, do drugs, commit crimes, have pre-marital sex. and have poorer educational outcomes. The more time a family has their father decrease the probability of these deviant behaviors.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Even when accounting for education, career aspirations, and financial limitations ; non-religious women plan on having less children than religious woman.

Religiosity was a significant factor in fertility, even with all other factors controlled for.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…