In romance, kids follow moms

If you want to know whether a prospective spouse is likely to stick around, look at his or her mother. A new study has found that people whose moms have married multiple times or lived with several partners are more likely to do the same themselves, reports TheAtlantic.com. In fact, the more partners kids witness their mothers living with, the more sexual partners they are likely to have themselves. Researchers, who based their conclusions on survey data involving 7,000 Americans over a period of 24 years, theorize that genes for personality traits play a major role in the correlation between a mother’s number of partners and her child’s. “It could be that mothers who have more partners don’t have great relationship skills, or don’t deal with conflict well, or have mental-health problems,” says lead author Claire Kamp Dush of

Ohio State University. “Whatever the exact mechanisms, they may pass these characteristics on to their children, making their children’s relationships less stable.”

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