Religion is considered to promote sustaining marriage and traditional sexual norms. Being religious indicates that marriages are more likely to be stable and be happy. Religious couples are not likely to cheat on their spouses than non-religious, married individuals. Married couples who are religious are less likely to separate or divorce. A study held by Joshua Tuttle and Shannon Davis found that religion decreases the occurrence of infidelity in married couples. They claimed that this was because religions promote traditional sexual and marital norms and discourage extramarital sexual activity. They also found that being religious did not stop marital infidelity from occurring, but it also did not change the chance of divorce. Marital infidelity also does not appear to have an effect of the chance of divorce in long-married couples.
