Factors Influencing the Propensity to Have Extramarital Affairs

romantic partners of having sexual relations with another individual, or thoughts of their romantic partner producing deep emotional attachment. Throughout the predictions, the larger proportion of men than women decided sexual infidelity is more distressing. These coerced forced-choice results were repeated in a second study in which men displayed signs of more physiological arousal when visualizing their partners having intimate relations with another individual. This has been duplicated in many studies; the original source employing Buss et al.’s forced-choice methodology. (Guadagno & Sagarin, 2010)

As indicated in the Marriage law act 1961, marriage in Australia is characterized by “The union between a man and a lady to the rejection into all others, wilfully entered into a life together for eternity.” Marriage has been around for a long time dating back to the first marriage in Australia in New South Wales in 1945.

Today, marriages are under attack due to the soaring rates of infidelity. Our society is defined by a high rate of sexual freedom that is not often handled in a responsible manner. There are different views on morality of extramarital affairs with some couples advocating for it. For example, there are parties that couples attend to ‘spice up’ their marriage so that the marriage itself won’t become ‘boring’ or ‘monotone’. These relationships form to ‘spice up’ the marriage are required or supposed to be plutonic sadly, this is not always the case. However, sexual freedom has lead to an increase in extra-marital affairs that weaken a marriage’s bond and only satisfy temporary pleasures. This essay will look at extra-marital affairs from a consequentialist’s perspective.

The current study will include 200 participants. The age range will be from 18 to 35. Each participant will be selected based off a survey given to determine the level of seriousness of their relationship. One hundred of the participants must be married while the other hundred must in committed relationships. These participants will be recruited from an online survey website, such as, globaltestmarket.com. Participants are required to live in the United States, but can originally be from other countries. All races and genders are invited to participate. Participants will be offered an amount of money for each time they participant. So $10 for initial survey, then $20 for the follow up survey in two years. The increase in price is to encourage more participants to come back for the follow up. There are no predicted risks to the participant. To complete the follow up survey the participants must have experienced infidelity personally. A spouse or significant other must have cheated on them. The lucky people who did not get cheated on in two years will only receive $5 in compensation. The victims of infidelity will receive the entire $15. The study is only a questionnaire, but the priming of

If marriage is the institution of monogamy, these examples give a quick idea about why it is impossible to discuss monogamy and its norm without thinking about marriage and the continuity of its structuring, marginalizing and oppressive mechanisms as

The research study of the effects on children and adolescents that polygamy has began with analyzation of religion within families, relationships with parents and child, and the attitudes portrayed toward the parents. Previously conducted research came to an analysis that religion and beliefs has played, and will continue to play a major role in molding the relationship between the entire family within the household. Many research methods were used to conduct the studies, such as correctional analysis, contrasts and comparison, and quantities with tables and charts. All 465 of the participants were active in this in some way. The results of the study impacted the many kids and teens who had polygamous active in their homes. However, “there

Also discussed in this chapter are procedures for sampling, survey instruments employed, procedures and sources for collecting data, and the statistical methods used to analyze collected data.

How these two types of infidelities are seen by both men and women vary greatly on the scale. Men are very likely to become upset and end a relationship if their girlfriend or wife were to have sexual encounters with another man vs. an emotional connection. The same cannot be said about women. According to (Buss, Larsen, and Westen, 1996; Buss et al., 1992; Buunk et al., 1996; Trivers, 1972), women tend to overlook a sexual infidelity but, are more affected by emotional bonds their boyfriend or husband acquires with another woman. Men tend to have a fear of uncertainty with offspring if a woman commits sexual infidelity that in turn tends to make him more susceptible to leaving a relationship. On the other hand, women are more invested in the emotional stability in her partner which in turn makes the woman more angered and upset over an emotional infidelity. The perceived outcomes for the two different types of infidelity are total opposites between men and women whereas the causes for infidelity is somewhat similar.

The article "Divorce Among Sociologists Married to Sociologists u explores the divorce rate of male sociologists. No actual hypothesis was formulated due to the fact that the authors *stumbled" upon a correlation while doing a study on religious apostasy and divorce. The data were obtained using a mailed questionnaire. The questionnaires were sent out randomly to 760 members of the American Sociological Association, the data were specifically formed by analyzing the 334 (out of 353) returned questionnaires. The authors found that male sociologists who had married women with sociology degrees were more likely to divorce than male sociologists who had married women with Other degrees.

“Infidelity is commonly understood as a violation of the marital agreement, a betrayal of one 's trust, and a threat to the marital bond” (Lusterman, 1998). In non-traditional unions such as common-law marriages, civil unions and couples in a committed relationship the bonds of these relationships may be equivalent to a traditional marriage. There are two components of infidelity that may occur either individually or together. The first component is sexual infidelity: sexual activity with someone other than your long-term partner. The second component is emotional infidelity: becoming emotionally intimate with someone other than your long-term partner (Lusterman, 1998). An affair can be an exclusively sexual act such as visiting a prostitute or a casual one night stand with someone you just

However, focusing on marriage as we know it in Western culture today, we are experiencing the biggest threat to marriage that we have ever seen. While 70% percent of marriages that began in the 1990s reached their fifteenth anniversaries and couples who wed in the 2000s are divorcing at lower rates, the real threat to marriage isn’t necessarily divorce, but the rate at which couples are using unhealthy coping mechanisms such as having affairs or utilizing pornography, all while keeping up appearances for outsiders.

In America, infidelity rates have shot up exorbitantly high in the latest year. Infidelity, which is a form of cheating, has become a common problem throughout America (Debernadi, Nicholas). Even though infidelity is the breaking of trust, it can cause major damage to a person mentally, physically, or emotionally. Infidelity is a sexual or emotional act engaged in by one person within a committed relationship. When infidelity is acted upon, that means the partner of the relationship has went against their vows. It has become an escalating epidemic that is very outrageous in the America. “Infidelity occurs when one partner in a relationship continues to believe that the agreement to being faithful is still in force, while the other partner is secretly violating (Lusterman p3). Not to mention, infidelity is erotic behaviors that have affected millions of marriages including their children. Infidelity has reached an epidemic problem, resulting in a plethora of ended marriages.

Analyzing data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, they created a sample size of 2034 couples who all had newborns. They followed the study through 48 hours after giving birth, 12 months, 36 months, and 60 months. This helped show variations over time that were also reliable. They also surveyed a number of other questions that may have shown correlations between a healthy marriage and another variable. The study showed that in order for religion to affect marriage beneficially, both partners had to be engaged in religious participation. The study also supported that religious attendance of unwed couples improved unity as well. While this study is exemplary in its research, a few things need to be noted. The categories of religions may seem odd and out of place falling into five sectors: none, black protestant, catholic, conservative protestant, and other(Wilcox and Wolfinger 2008) Their study also only focuses on couples with children, leaving out possible differences between couples who do not have children versus those that do.

Also, Islam puts a great emphasis on family relations and cohesion. Therefore, different relationships outside marriage are not acceptable in Islamic Law. The rational of this carries a lot of wisdom behind it and to keep the strong connection between family members. On

Data also has been described and reported by measuring central tendency of the data. A main descriptive statistics of the variables used in the model shown below.