Does Premarital Cohabitation Raise Your Risk of Divorce?

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Arielle Kuperberg, Associate Professor (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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Abstract: In the last 50 years, the percentage of men and women who cohabit before marriage – “living in sin” as it was still called in the 1960s – has increased by almost 900 percent. Today 70 percent of women aged 30 to 34 have cohabited with a male partner, and two-thirds of new marriages take place between couples who have already lived together for an average of 31 months.

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Publication
Language: English
Date: 2014
Keywords
marriage and family, premarital cohabitation, marriage, divorce

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