Monday, November 2, 2009

Why Children Who Live Without Dads Have Earlier Sex


Researchers have known for years that children raised without a dad at home tend to start having sex at a younger age than those that do. I guess it was assumed that the factors were environmental - that kids saw their single mom dating so they started dating earlier and things like that. But a new study from researchers at six major U.S. universities have called that assumption into question. This new study argues that earlier sex is best explained by genetics, and the same genetic disposition that leads to earlier sex also creates problems for men in marriages.

This seems just a little counter intuitive to me. The challenges in any family without a father present are far-reaching and the results of absentee fathers' leaving their families cross many behavioral spectra. In any case, the research is interesting, but I am not yet convinced that genetics plays the dominant role in children having sex sooner. A responsible, committed father makes a good difference in so many areas.



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3 comments:

  1. Sex education for young people should be taught. Growing up without a dad for girls will create a psychological effect in them. Unknowingly, they will long for the father image in men which will be misinterpreted to be a sexual urge. With sex, they will temporarily satisfied for the emptiness they feel. And because it is the wrong and only temporary answer to the problem, so it will not satisfy them completely which will become an addiction.

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  2. wow that is correct Ted it becomes an addiction that fills there empty heart, that is longing for the love of a father.

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  3. I agree with that comment. Girls who grow up without a father-figure, will try to adopt that by having sex earlier.

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