You wrote in response to David's question:
What several longitudinal studies suggest is that premarital sex is a reasonably good predictor of extramarital "cheating." Therefore, extramarital sex is sometimes an intervening variable between premarital sex and divorce.
Interesting. Am I to understand that the longitudinal studies found that those who don't have premarital sex are less likely to cheat than those who do?
Also, do you know if the studies tried to factor in the effect of any third variable which might both predict premarital abstinence and marital faithfulness? It may not be the premarital sex that has any effect on marital faithfulness, but some third variable determining both.
Regards
William
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