The Fast and Simple Way to Know If He’s Playing for Keeps
How to Bring All the Boys to Your Yard
Ghosting is OK Sometimes
20 Signs Your Best Guy Friend Likes You Back
Cheap Talk
Do Attraction Preferences Predict Mating Choices?
Crazy, Madly, Deeply, In Love With You
Speaking Truth About Female Sexual Power
The beginning of the end.
That zero group is pretty worrisome, but fear not, that’s mostly in the youngest cohort:
But wait – what if all these people have few LTRs because they’re having casual sex? Again, no worries:
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Overall, the trend is clear, and in my opinion, very positive.
Casual sex ↓
Contraception use ↑ (Heavy use of condoms, about half have used the Pill)
Teen births ↓
LTRs ↑ slightly (due to later marriage age)
And speaking of later marriage age, one last statistical tidbit for you:
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The risk of divorce is lowest from about 28-32. Marrying later than previous generations has been a stabilizing influence, and most Millennials aim for this sweet spot. Why does the risk of divorce increase so dramatically after 32? Sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger hazards a guess:
“How come? Wolfinger isn’t sure. But controlling the data for demographic and personal characteristics such as race, education, religion, sexual history, family background, or the size of the cities survey takers lived in didn’t change the results, suggesting none of those factors could explain it. Ultimately, the professor suspects that there’s a lot of self-selection at play: The sorts of people who wait a very long time to say “I do” just might not really be the marrying types, whether they realize it or not. Or, even if they are, their dating pool might have been whittled down to people who aren’t.”
Overall, I think we can all chill out a bit about dating. Men and women both want:
How to Bring All the Boys to Your Yard
Ghosting is OK Sometimes
20 Signs Your Best Guy Friend Likes You Back
Cheap Talk
Do Attraction Preferences Predict Mating Choices?
Crazy, Madly, Deeply, In Love With You
Speaking Truth About Female Sexual Power
The beginning of the end.
- (LOL, I hope that 3% with 10+ LTRs is in their 90s.)
That zero group is pretty worrisome, but fear not, that’s mostly in the youngest cohort:
But wait – what if all these people have few LTRs because they’re having casual sex? Again, no worries:
chalabi-datalab-iloveyou-3
Overall, the trend is clear, and in my opinion, very positive.
Casual sex ↓
Contraception use ↑ (Heavy use of condoms, about half have used the Pill)
Teen births ↓
LTRs ↑ slightly (due to later marriage age)
And speaking of later marriage age, one last statistical tidbit for you:
wolfinger_1.png.CROP.promo-xlarge2
The risk of divorce is lowest from about 28-32. Marrying later than previous generations has been a stabilizing influence, and most Millennials aim for this sweet spot. Why does the risk of divorce increase so dramatically after 32? Sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger hazards a guess:
“How come? Wolfinger isn’t sure. But controlling the data for demographic and personal characteristics such as race, education, religion, sexual history, family background, or the size of the cities survey takers lived in didn’t change the results, suggesting none of those factors could explain it. Ultimately, the professor suspects that there’s a lot of self-selection at play: The sorts of people who wait a very long time to say “I do” just might not really be the marrying types, whether they realize it or not. Or, even if they are, their dating pool might have been whittled down to people who aren’t.”
Overall, I think we can all chill out a bit about dating. Men and women both want: