A new study has found that women who wait till marriage to have sex are less likely to later get divorced than women who have premarital sex.

The study, which was released by the Institute for Family Studies, found that only three percent of women, however, wait until marriage to have sex, reports CBN News.

The study, which was conducted by Nicholas H. Wolfinger, a professor of family and consumer studies at the University of Utah, also found that women married since the year 2000 who had two sexual partners prior to marriage surprisingly were just as likely to get divorced as women who had 10 or more sexual partners.

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