Study: Extramarital sex and divorce more common among veterans

[Mad Scientist]

I do have experience in this arena and infedility is pretty high amongst service members but I don't think its that much worse than our civilian counter parts, what say you?

I was born and raised in L.A. and I thought there was a lot of fuckin' around there but L.A. is tame compared to most any AF Base in the world, especially the now closed Clark AB Philippines. That was a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.

Clark AB was the only place I've ever been where a woman will walk right up to you and say; "My husband is TDY, wanna' fuck?"

 

[uscitizen]

It's pretty common among Republicans. Ask Newt.

LOL.

Type-A personalities, men who don't understand failure, men who subscribe to the warrior ethic....if you're saying that these are men who would vote Republican....

Yep not understanding failure means keeping trying the same things over and over even if they never work out well.

 

[High_Gravity]

I do have experience in this arena and infedility is pretty high amongst service members but I don't think its that much worse than our civilian counter parts, what say you?

Study: Extramarital sex and divorce more common among veterans

Veterans were significantly more likely to have ever engaged in extramarital sex and ever gotten divorced than people who were never in the military, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

The study, based on data from a 1992 national survey, found that more than 32 percent of ever-married veterans reported extramarital sex, which is about twice the rate among ever-married non-veterans (16.8 percent).

"To the extent that the patterns observed in these data hold for our current veteran population, the results of this study provide evidence that the concerns about infidelity among spouses of persons who have served in the military are to a considerable degree valid," said Andrew S. London, chair of the sociology department and a sociology professor at Syracuse University. "However, even though the reported rates of infidelity were significantly higher for veterans than non-veterans, extramarital sex was only reported by one-third of ever-married veteran respondents."

Titled, "Veteran Status, Marital Infidelity, and Divorce," the study also found that among those who had ever married, veterans were almost 10 percent more likely to have gotten divorced (38.5 percent compared to 28.9 percent). There was also a strong association between extramarital sex and divorce both for veterans and non-veterans. Overall, even after taking into account veteran status and other factors that influence divorce, those who reported extramarital sex were 2.3 times more likely to have ever divorced than those who reported no extramarital sex.

While the study considered both men and women, London and his co-authors Elizabeth Allen, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Colorado-Denver, and Janet M. Wilmoth, a sociology professor at Syracuse University, said their data set included too few female veterans to draw definitive conclusions about them as a separate group.

"The results of this study provide robust evidence that veteran status was strongly associated with an increased likelihood of extramarital sex and divorce—at least among men—and suggest that the odds of extramarital sex and divorce might also be elevated among female veterans," London said. "But, further research that uses larger, representative samples of female veterans is needed to confirm those female-specific associations."


The study relied on data from the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS), and focused on the 2,308 18-60-year-old respondents who comprised the ever-married subset of the sample. "Although it is now two decades old, the NHSLS is one of the few national data sets that includes questions about whether respondents have ever served in the military, extramarital sex, and marital and divorce history," London said.

As valuable as the NHSLS data are, London and his co-authors believe that their findings raise important new questions that can only be addressed with new data collection. "We do not know from these data whether the extramarital sex occurred prior to, during, or after the conclusion of the respondent's military service, and we do not know the military service status of spouses," London said. "New, relatively large-scale data collection initiatives that follow people over time, examine different stages of life, and collect state-of-the-science measurements of military service experiences, sexual behavior, and marriage and family outcomes from husbands and wives are desperately needed."

In terms of the study's policy implications, London said, "This research can increase our understanding of some of the problems faced by military and veteran families, and can inform the development of interventions used to help them."

Study: Extramarital sex and divorce more common among veterans

Hmm..if it's at all correct...would be interesting to know if those statistics are referring to the spouse coming home after a war or not. Or during, etc. My first thought would be that coming home after being in a war, or even just seeing things overseas would be very difficult; sometimes the communication barrier in the marriage closes down - the walls and guards go up.. then one of the spouses wanting "love" elsewhere, but it's rather into "lust"? I don't know though. Maybe a case by case situation.

Infidelity is everywhere and messing up so many lives. IMO, it's all spiritual, a spiritual battle. Satan's out there tempting men or women, using lustful things to entice. In that respect, I'd guess it's very difficult to be a man in this day in age. Women practically unclothed everywhere. I'm guessing that's very tempting for some men sometimes.

If Satan can break down the family unit any way he can, he will. If he can break down any love relationships, he will. Divorce statistics are showing that for now it looks like he's temporarily winning the battle. Heavy emphasis on "temporary".

When it's all been said and done, Satan is gone forever. Praise Jesus.

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To be honest alot of the cheating is going on when the Military member is stateside too, you don't have to be in Afghanistan necessarily for your hot little wife to cheat on you.

 

[High_Gravity]

I do have experience in this arena and infedility is pretty high amongst service members but I don't think its that much worse than our civilian counter parts, what say you?

I was born and raised in L.A. and I thought there was a lot of fuckin' around there but L.A. is tame compared to most any AF Base in the world, especially the now closed Clark AB Philippines. That was a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.

Clark AB was the only place I've ever been where a woman will walk right up to you and say; "My husband is TDY, wanna' fuck?"

Clark AB was scandalous, my old superintendent was telling me stories about that base, he said families would hire young Philipinas from off base to clean their houses, and the Philipina would end up fucking the husband, people were filing for divorce left and right at that place.

 

[Warrior102]

25 years of marriage next year and this vet has NEVER cheated on his lovely bride.

EVER !

 

[Warrior102]

I do have experience in this arena and infedility is pretty high amongst service members but I don't think its that much worse than our civilian counter parts, what say you?

I was born and raised in L.A. and I thought there was a lot of fuckin' around there but L.A. is tame compared to most any AF Base in the world, especially the now closed Clark AB Philippines. That was a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.

Clark AB was the only place I've ever been where a woman will walk right up to you and say; "My husband is TDY, wanna' fuck?"

Hey shipmate - Subic City/Olongapo - GREAT LIBERTY !!!!!

 

[uscitizen]

25 years of marriage next year and this vet has NEVER cheated on his lovely bride.

EVER !

We are in the minority though.
I never cheated on either of my wives.