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COITAL FREQUENCY AMONG MARRIED AND COHABITING COUPLES IN THE UNITED STATES. A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

WILLIAM H. JAMES
Affiliation:
The Galton Laboratory, University College London, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE

Abstract

Rao & DeMaris (1995) suggest that when age is controlled, cohabiting partners have higher coital rates than married partners. Their sample was restricted to couples whose relationships were of 5 years' duration or less. This restriction, according to the authors 'circumvents the confounding problem of age with duration of relationship'.

Type
DEBATE
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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