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Do Premarital Sex Partners Still Reduce Marital Quality? An Update

ack in 2018, I published a post here at Family Studies exploring the effect of premarital sex partners on marital happiness: Does having more prior sex partners lead to a less happy marriage? Perhaps grandiosely, I started the post with a potted history of American (hetero)sexual behavior. There really had been only one major change in American’s sexual behavior over the past century: the 1960s.

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The Origins and Consequences of Big Tech’s “Tobacco Moment”

The constitutional debate over social media bans seems to be moving away from regulating speech and content toward scrutinizing product designs and their resulting harms. Once bans are viewed through that lens, federal and state legislatures in the United States take on a much broader constitutional authority to protect children in their “traditional social environment” online than many First Amendment debates would suggest.

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Your Hardest Family Question: My Husband’s Health Is Pushing Me Away

My husband and I have been married for 30+ years. In the beginning, I tried to “change” him, and ultimately discovered that I can only change myself. I realize that his life’s experiences are a part of who he is, and as we have different opinions regarding many things, we have agreed that on some topics, we will just disagree. He is a good husband and father.

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