Research Studies
Marriage & Family Wellness: Corporate America’s Business?
You can view the full report HERE, or you look at the Executive Summary HERE and you will see this great quote among other great research information: According to Olson and Turvey,“When companies invest in the physical and relational wellness of their workers, returns on investment can range between $1.50 and $6.85 for every dollar spent on these types of programs…Companies wanting to increase their profitability will do well to realize that business takes place in the boardroom and the family room. It is in every companyʼs best financial interest to understand how marriage and family wellness affect their business and to invest in the promotion of relational wellness.”
Does Divorce Make People Happy?
Here are some great quotes from this study you can find HERE: Two out of three unhappily married adults who avoided divorce or separation ended up happily married five years later. Just one out of five of unhappy spouses who divorced or separated had happily remarried in the same time period.
Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships
Chip Ingram did a message in his series called, “Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships”, and here are some excerpts from that message. You can also read an excerpt from his book HERE.
Fact #1: “Those who abstain from sexual intercourse before marriage report the highest levels of sexual satisfaction in marriage.” A whopping thirty-one percent higher level of sexual satisfaction, and that was by the Bethesda Research Group, and reported in the Washington Post.
Fact #2: “Those who cohabitate, or live together, before marriage have a fifty percent higher divorce rate than those who do not.” That was a research study by UCLA.
Fact #3: “Those who abstain from sexual intercourse before marriage have the highest rates of fidelity in marriage.” That was in a study done at the University of South Carolina.
Christian Divorce Rates
On our website I wrote a blog-post about this subject: Christian Divorce Rates – How Does It Compare.
There is more research available here: https://shaunti.com/