{"id":8738,"date":"2010-12-28T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T05:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8738"},"modified":"2010-12-27T03:08:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T08:08:57","slug":"study-those-who-wait-for-marriage-have-better-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/study-those-who-wait-for-marriage-have-better-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Those Who Wait For Marriage Have Better Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study in the American Psychological Association&#8217;s <em>Journal of Family Psychology<\/em> &#8220;revealed&#8221; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labspaces.net\/108334\/Couples_who_delay_having_sex_get_benefits_later\">those who waited until they were married<\/a> before having sexual relations had higher relationship stability, among other factors.<\/p>\n<p>This study is completely unrelated to the military, but there&#8217;s an important detail:\u00a0 The behavior in this study had <em>nothing<\/em> to do with religion.\u00a0 (In fact, it was &#8220;controlled&#8221; out of the study.)<\/p>\n<p>While some are quick to dismiss calls for supporting &#8220;moral&#8221; conduct as so much bad couscous, there can be (and are, according to this study) secular &#8220;benefits&#8221; to conduct or characteristics often attributed to a &#8220;religious&#8221; origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study in the American Psychological Association&#8217;s Journal of Family Psychology &#8220;revealed&#8221; that those who waited until they were married before having sexual relations had higher relationship stability, among other factors. This study is completely unrelated to the military, but there&#8217;s an important detail:\u00a0 The behavior in this study had nothing to do with religion.\u00a0 (In fact, it was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1284,4,19,1285,45,10],"class_list":["post-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-american-psychological-association","tag-churchandstate","tag-government","tag-journal-of-family-psychology","tag-politics","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}