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Show Page THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, A8 Thursday, October 13, 1994 Research reveals Generation ; By TRISHA GURA Chicago Tribune ; ' vorcing more frequently than their parents. But contrary to myth, teen-ageand young adults are not sinking into a swamp of promiscuitrs CHICAGO The University of Chicago's landmark national sex survey provides a startlingly clear picture that shatters perceptions of young'adult behavior. Americans ages 18 to 30 told researchers they were having sex "earlier, delaying marriage and di . y- "Those coming of age after AIDS actually behave more conservatively than their predecessors," said researcher Stuart Michaels, project manager for the National Survey. trip to the altar. v The trend reflects a gradual evolution of behavior that began after World War II, when the GI Bill made college a viable option for millions who previously could not have afforded it, according to the sociologist Edstudy's ward Laumann. Health and Social Life Overall, members of Generation X value fidelity, have one sex partner at a time and marry by the age of 30, the study reported. However, their paths to the altar have many alternate routes, some of which carry dangerous health -- 1 I f f Li--'- , 5 S Ja v changed, Laumann said. Epic desuch as the growing velopments number of women in the workplace, the pill and the increasing collecacceptance of divorce tively continued to change public mores, particularly the widespread prevalence of cohabitation. The study found that of young adults reported their first live-i- n partnership did not involve two-thir- ds Expectations about marriage and the traditional route to it risks. And there may be more than one 10 ti h) 1 is .not 'Generation Sex 3 ' Lv J fflDDEIU marriage. By contrast, only 15 percent of males and 6 percent of. females in their 50s said they coha-- . bitated. From another perspective, well over half of women born between 1933 and 1942 were married by the age of 20, as compared to t of those born between 1963 and 1974, the researchers found. However, if cohabitation andj marriage both are counted as worn- en living with mates, the disparity between older and younger groups disappears. According to the ' study, 85 percent of both older and i younger women formed live-i- n by the age of 25. of both groups had one partner before the age of 18. Thus, the ideal of being committed to one person has not changed oyer the years, but the way people go about it has. .According to the study, an un--1 pedictable pattern of dating and sexual experimentation followed by cohabitation and breakups has emerged. And, the cycle may be repeated several times, each with different twists and permutations. ' Delaying marriage obviously" causes young adults to engage in premarital sex more often and with more partners, according to Laumann. 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