I am working on my talking points when debating that traditional marriage as in God designed is healthier for the couple, the children and society.
Compared to nontraditional marriage as in anything within the LGBT crowd, polygamy, really really young child marriages, etc whatever else our sexual revolution culture is trying to normalize.
I like to use facts, studies, references and real life examples mixed in with my scriptures. So if you have any book, resource, article, or studies then please provide it. Thanks.
Google scholar is a good tool to find academic research. Scholar.google.com. See if you can set it up to search a library you have access to that pays for academic databases. Some papers are free, though.
On virginity, Teachman 1990, Journal of Marriage and Family I think. Virgins and women who had only slept with their husband had a much lower rate of 'marital disruption.' This may not pan out in later studies which study a different landscape where a lot of people shack up.
I have run across pages that claim there is research that couples who regularly attend church have much lower divorce rates. That's on divorce.
I also believe there is some research out there showing lesbian couples have by far the highest rates of domestic violence. The American Family Association has some research on some of the negative things related to homosexuality, but left wingers, even academics, may not value the research very much.
I recall there was some twin research where if one twin identified as gay, the other twin had a much higher chance of identifying as gay than the regular population, but the odds were still against it as I recall. Mixed results on the born gay hypothesis i suppose. There could be genetics (or 'spiritual heredity) that disposes people to be disposed toward certain sins. Sins of the fathers maybe, if the children do not forsake them?
Old psychology research showed that homosexuals tended to be the type who wanted to do extreme things to get attention.
I recall James Dobson writing that homosexual men typically did not have affirmation by a father and eroticized male attention. Not sure the primary research on that. But Jordan Peterson is not really socially conservative on these issues, IMO, but he said something along the lines of without the lack of the affirmation of the father there was no explanation for male homosexuality, so it may be established in old research before such research became considered not politically correct.
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