Late last month, the Journal of ily published a the fresh analysis with a somewhat foreboding finding: Couples who lived together before marriage had a lower divorce rate in their first year of marriage, but had a higher divorce rate after five years. It supported earlier research linking premarital cohabitation to increased risk of divorce.
This means, once researchers have enough longitudinal analysis knowing if one is meaningfully attached to the almost every other, brand new personal norms you to definitely shaped this new findings have a tendency to rarely be off used to couples today trying to figure out how cohabitation you certainly will apply to its relationship
But just two weeks later, the Council on Contemporary Families-a nonprofit group at the University of Texas at Austin-published a statement that came to the exact opposite conclusion: Premarital cohabitation seemed to make couples less likely to divorce. From the 1950s through 1970, “those who were willing to transgress strong social norms to cohabit … were also more likely to transgress similar social norms about divorce,” wrote the author, Arielle Kuperberg, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. But as the rate of premarital cohabitation ballooned to some 70 percent, “its association with divorce faded. In fact, since 2000, premarital cohabitation has actually been associated with a lower rate of divorce, once factors such as religiosity, education, and age at co-residence are accounted for.”
It is really not unheard-out-of for contemporaneous training for a passing fancy point to reach opposite conclusions, but it is a bit surprising to allow them to take action immediately following looking at such of the identical investigation. [Read more…]