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  1. Married adults have markedly more sex than their unmarried peers, but the sex recession is also making inroads among married couples.
  2. When it comes to sexlessness (“no sex in the last year”) among young adults, the biggest change comes post-2010.
  3. Between 2010 and 2019, the average time young adults spent with friends in a given week fell by nearly 50%, from 12.8 hours to just 6.5 hours.

Source: Institute for Family Studies.

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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to Source Watch, The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) is

a conservative "think tank" which, according to its website, has the expressed mission "to strengthen marriage and natural family and advancing the well-being of children through research and public education."[1] Research from IFS and its employees are frequently cited and published in both conservative outlets such as National Review [2] and more mainstream ones, like the Washington Post.[3]. "IFS is a successor to the Ridge Foundation, through which Bradley and others used to support Wilcox's National Marriage Project."[1] The Institute for Family Studies says that its "commitment is rooted in the social-science fact that children are most likely to thrive when they are raised by their own married biological parents. The underlying premise of its work is that families and communities, freedom and prosperity, and the political order itself -- both at home and abroad -- are all critically dependent upon the existence of a strong healthy, pervasive marriage culture among the citizenry."[4]

I don't entirely understand how this fits their agenda (I would expect a "married heterosexuals are having more sex" narrative), and am not surprised by the results, but also don't really trust the source.

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If they are earnest in their goals, I would hope for honest reporting for others to campaign around, plan for, or invest in. People interested in doing projects that I disagree with can still produce good data (though I agree we should look for missing data, for eg).

Surface level, this looks like a standardized survey they've used for decades? Could someone confirm the questions haven't changed much and the data collection is sane?