Married Democratic men have become ‘more tolerant’ of cheating, study finds

Democratic men are more likely to have more lenient attitudes toward infidelity in marriage than Republican men and are more likely to admit to having sex outside of their marriage, according to a new analysis.

“Contrary to what the headlines might suggest, Republican men are less likely to stray than other men,” wrote Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology and researcher at the Institute of Family Studies (IFS), at about the group’s activities. latest research. “Part of this could be because when it comes to attitudes about cheating, it’s actually Democrats who have been more accepting of sex outside of marriage in recent years.”

Wilcox’s assertion is based on data from the General Social Survey (GSS)“a nationally representative survey of adults in the United States conducted since 1972,” according to its website. IFS researchers used GSS data to determine whether there were trends in the moral beliefs regarding marital fidelity of married or previously married Democratic and Republican men, ages 18 to 55.

According to their analysis, there has been a decline in loyalty standards over the past decade among Democratic men in this group.

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In GSS surveys spanning 2010 to 2014, three-quarters of Democratic men (76%) surveyed said sex outside of marriage was “always bad.” But between 2016 and 2022, just over half of Democratic men (53%) surveyed said the same thing.

The attitude of Republican men towards fidelity to marriage remained virtually the same over the same period, according to Wilcox, with four out of five married Republican men “embracing the classical norm” of remaining faithful in marriage.

Men who identified as religious had stricter views than their peers on marital fidelity.

“Specifically, 90% of never-married Republican men (ages 18-55) who attend religious services once a month or more say extramarital affairs are always bad, while only 74% of ever-married non-religious Republicans approve the classic fidelity standard according to ESG (2010-2022),” Wilcox wrote.

Democratic men who regularly attend religious services were also significantly more likely than secular Democratic men to take a hard stance against infidelity. in marriage, according to IFS review of 2022 data.

When it came to reports of cheating on their own spouse, the two groups also differed.

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Among married or previously married men sampled between 2010 and 2022, 18% of Democrats reported ever having had sex outside of marriage, while 13% of Republicans reported the same, according to the IFS.

Reports of spousal cheating were lower among religious Republican men.

According to Wilcox, 15 percent of secular Republicans reported having sex outside of marriage, compared to 10 percent of religious Republicans.

There was no statistically significant difference between religious Democratic men and secular Democratic men in these surveys for reports of cheating from 2010 to 2022, the IFS explained to Fox News DigitaL.

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