ShareHuman development across the lifespan is largely misunderstood or disregarded in today’s world. It does not operate in a vacuum, as is often suggested by the popular media and social elites. It occurs one developmental stage at a time, with the experiences and choices of the prior having a large effect upon the present. The [...]
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ShareAt the beginning of the 21st century, researchers announced a void of dating on college campuses. The absence of dating likely existed for years before researchers made it better known to the world outside campus. Still, the lack of dating was enough of a change from a decade or two prior to create a stir. This new-found [...]
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Share Source: Busby, D. M., Carroll, J. S., and Willoughby, B. J. (2010). Compatibility or restraint? The effects of sexual timing on marriage relationships. Journal of Family Psychology, 24(6), 766-774.
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Share Source: Overall, married men and women report less depression, less anxiety and lower levels of other types of psychological distress. Waite, L. J., & Gallagher, M. (2000). The Case for Marriage. New York: Doubleday.
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Share Source: “Regardless of population subgroup (age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, education, income, or nativity) or health indicator (fair or poor health, limitations in activities, low back pain, headaches, serious psychological distress, smoking, or leisure-time physical inactivity), married adults were generally found to be healthier than adults in other marital status categories. Marital status differences [...]
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Share Sources: “Using the March 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we estimated standard human capital regressions, expanded to include race, Hispanic origin, and presence of children. Among men, ages 25-49, the coefficient on being married implied a 34 percent earnings advantage over the never-married, a 25 percent advantage over separated men, and a 21 percent [...]
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Share Direct source: “Model 3 includes a dichotomous variable measuring premarital sex and indicates that women who had their first sexual encounter prior to first marriage are about 34% more likely to experience marital dissolution at each point in their marriages (and for each year that they delay sex, the risk of marital disruption is [...]
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ShareToday, the Love and Fidelity Network is pleased to introduce an intercollegiate advertising campaign with the prominent tagline “My sexual choices now are making a difference.” This campaign–presented by 19 colleges and universities (including five Ivy Leagues) through 9,000 posters–sends the message that college students’ current sexual choices can increase their confidence in achieving other [...]
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A central part of starting the year off right is planning activities for entering freshmen that can balance and supplement orientation programming. In so doing, you will provide them with a supportive community of friends, and help free them from feeling compelled to conform to libertine campus sexual norms that challenge their commitments and offend their sensibilities.
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Share As we schedule our summer team of bloggers, we are taking a short break. We’ll be back very soon, so be sure to check out our blog frequently so you don’t miss our exciting upcoming posts!
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