研究顯示 母親的伴侶數量決定了孩子的伴侶數量

A new study suggests that people whose mothers had several serious romantic partners tend to follow the same trajectory.
一項新的研究表明，一位母親如果曾有若干個認真交往的伴侶，其子女也傾向於遵循同樣的戀愛軌跡。

Some people have their mother's eyes. And some, it turns out, grow up to have their mother's romantic history.
有些人會有和母親一樣的眼光。並且事實證明，有些人長大後會和他們的母親有着一樣的浪漫史。

People whose mothers have been married multiple times or have lived with multiple romantic partners are more likely to do so themselves, according to a new study published in the journal PLoSOne.
發表在《公共科學圖書館》雜誌上的一項新研究表明，一個人的母親若有過多次婚姻或與多個愛人同居，他自己也更有可能這樣做。

The longer people are exposed to their mother's cohabitation, the more sexual partners they tend to have.
人們接觸到自己母親與他人同居生活的時間越長，他們的性伴侶就越多。

The authors looked at data from surveys of thousands of Americans followed for 24 years. Data on the fathers' marriages wasn't available.
作者研究了24年來數千名美國人的數據，發現以上關聯與父親的婚姻史沒有關係

The study authors write that, rather than economics or socialization, the most likely explanation was genetic. That is, some people have personality traits that make them better or worse at maintaining relationships.
該研究的作者寫道，除了經濟或社會因素，最能解釋該問題的應該是遺傳因素。也就是說，有些人的個性特徵使他們可以更好地維繫人際關係，反之亦然。

They might be depressed, have trust issues, or not regulate their emotions well. They then pass those traits on to their children, who go on to have similarly short-lived relationships.
他們可能情緒低落，有信任問題，或者不能很好地控制自己的情緒。然後，他們把這些特徵傳給孩子，後者也會只有類似的短暫的戀愛關係。

"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, each of which can undermine relationships and lead to instability," Claire Kamp Dush, the lead author of the study and an associate professor of human sciences at Ohio State University, said in a statement.
該研究的主要作者、俄亥俄州立大學人文科學副教授克萊爾·坎普·杜什在一份聲明中表示：“那些伴侶較多的母親可能要麼沒有很好的戀愛技巧，要麼不能很好地處理衝突，抑或有心理健康問題，而這每一個問題都會損壞人際關係，導致（他們感情生活的）不穩定。”

"Whatever the exact mechanisms, they may pass these characteristics on to their children, making their children's relationships less stable."
“無論確切的原理是什麼，這些母親都可能將這些性格特徵傳給他們的孩子，使得他們的孩子的戀愛關係變得不穩定。”