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#1128 Chris Williamson On Understanding Human Nature & Modern Wisdom

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Is Birth Control Driving the Higher Divorce Rate?

A woman who sat next to my wife was a, I want to say sexual psychologist, maybe. She said that there in her mind was a very high correlation or at least some connection between the rise of birth control and the increase in divorce rate. The later you get in your life, the less you may actually be using the birth control. And therefore, that could be driving the higher divorce because actually your preferences have changed. "It fascinated me. I'd never even thought about that," he says.

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