在多子女家庭长大的孩子的确可以减少离婚率。

Growing up with siblings means you are less likely to get divorced later in life, a study shows. Researchers found that having brothers or sisters significantly reduced the chances of your marriage breaking down. For each additional sibling, the probability of divorce declined by up to 11 per cent.Apr 9, 2023

 

The study used data from the General Social Survey, which involved interviews with about 57,000 adults from across the United States at 28 points between 1972 and 2012.

The results showed that each additional sibling up to about seven provided additional protection from divorce, Downey said.  More siblings than that didn’t provide additional protection, although they did not hurt, either.

The good effect of siblings was seen among Americans of all generations studied.

“Siblings help protect against divorce among adults now just as much as they did 50 years ago,” Bobbitt-Zeher said.

The researchers took into account a wide variety of other factors that may have affected the results.

“One argument might be that it isn’t siblings that matter, but some other difference between large families and small families,” Downey said.  “It could have been that small families are more likely to have a single parent, or have some other issue that may hurt children in their future marriage relationship.”

So the researchers analyzed a variety of variables of both the respondents they surveyed and their parents that could have played a role in future divorces, including education, socioeconomic status, family structure, race, age at marriage, whether the respondents had children, gender role attitudes and religious affiliation, among others.

“When we added in all of these controls, nothing took away the relationship we saw between siblings and later divorce,” Bobbitt-Zeher said.  “None of these other factors explained it away.”

While the study itself can’t explain the protective effect of having siblings, Downey said there are good reasons for the findings.

“Growing up in a family with siblings, you develop a set of skills for negotiating both negative and positive interactions.  You have to consider other people’s points of view, learn how to talk through problems.  The more siblings you have, the more opportunities you have to practice those skills,” he said.

“That can be a good foundation for adult relationships, including marriage.”

这项研究很有意思。

1）每增加一个sibling, 可以减少2% （maximum 6 siblings)

2)  估计跟从小就锻练交洗能力有关。

3）这是一项十年前的研究。

 

所有跟帖： 

• 习惯了各种矛盾，争吵，知道这是生活的一部分，容忍度提高 -Amita- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:30:40

• 独生子女家庭也吵，要不吵大家都独生子女了 -floweryrose- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:32:51

• 可能有兄弟姐妹的从小学会了如何与人近距离地相处。 -小松松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:33:21

• 能忍呗。6个孩子 每人一个睡房都不能保证，就和我们小时候一样，知道提要求是无用的，凑合惯了。 -无言无语无声- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:33:40

• 也不要忽视多子女如果不能一碗水端平给孩子带来的伤害 LOL -加州阳光123- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:34:33

• 多子女家庭最后分遗产时翻脸成仇的也不少。人性不因为多几个兄弟姐妹就都净化了。 -小松松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:38:07

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• 能看上极度贪婪的并与其结婚的人肯定本身就没那么看重人品，后面发生任何事都是不奇怪的。 -CarriePanda- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:56:44

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• 极度贪婪一般很容易识别。能跟这种人一起生活的大多也是一丘之貉。 -小松松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 18:05:41

• 狼狈为奸，相辅相成 -julie116- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 18:16:50

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• 哈哈。男娃娶妻后往往会有质的变化。 -小松松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:48:14

• 我老婆还好，我母亲遗产什么的全部都给了我弟弟，老婆没什么意见 -Amita- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:55:22

• 媳妇总体能维护夫家大局。女婿更容易绞尽脑汁更名换姓变成自家的。生物本能？ -julie116- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:57:28

• 哈哈， 有家庭后会变的。 -Shanghaigirl98- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:57:59

• 朋友老大跟父母说，不用给我留钱，现在付老二一半（老二免学费，老大大学毕业时说的，还真说到做到） -成功的兔- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:52:16

• 这个我信。 身边有例子。 -Shanghaigirl98- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 19:18:35

• 有利有弊。到最后看造化了。 -Shanghaigirl98- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 17:48:45

• 难说。老美同事双胞胎姐妹。婚前好的跟一个人似的，姐姐结婚以后马上和妹妹不来往了，原因是老公不喜欢妹妹过来拜访 -sept.- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 18:06:13

• 显然这个女的老公人品很差 -CarriePanda- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 18:11:11

• 据同事说，也不差，人很聪明，就是比较孤僻。她姐姐很喜欢 -sept.- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 18:12:36

• 这还不差？标准太低了吧？ -小松松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 18:18:03

• 孤僻也不能不让老婆不跟自己亲姐妹来往吧？孤僻的人不爱社交可以理解，但要配偶断绝跟自己姐妹来往 -CarriePanda- ♀ (44 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 18:21:01

• 这是一种控制手段。 -julie116- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/08/2023 postreply 18:30:08