{"id":220073,"date":"2025-08-14T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/parents-reported-higher-rates-of-infidelity-than-non-parents-during-pandemic-survey-finds"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:26:12","slug":"parents-reported-higher-rates-of-infidelity-than-non-parents-during-pandemic-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/parents-reported-higher-rates-of-infidelity-than-non-parents-during-pandemic-survey-finds","title":{"rendered":"Parents reported higher rates of infidelity than non-parents during pandemic, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parents-reported-higher-rates-of-infidelity-than-non-parents-during-pandemic-survey-finds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a survey study of more than 1,000 U.S. adults who were in committed, heterosexual relationships during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were more likely than non-parents to report an increased desire for infidelity since before the pandemic, and were also more likely to report having actually cheated on their partner during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jessica T. Campbell of Indiana University Bloomington, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal <a href=\"http:\/\/plos.io\/44XUBBr\" target=\"_blank\"><i>PLOS One<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior research has suggested that COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pandemic\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pandemic<\/a> conditions strained many romantic and sexual relationships. Other research suggests that high stress and relationship dissatisfaction may prompt some people to consider engaging in romantic or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sexual+infidelity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sexual infidelity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a survey study of more than 1,000 U.S. adults who were in committed, heterosexual relationships during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were more likely than non-parents to report an increased desire for infidelity since before the pandemic, and were also more likely to report having actually cheated on their partner during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}