Couples Who Live Together Before Marriage at Higher Risk of Divorce: Study

Oct 22, 2018 by

by Brendan Showalter, Christian Post:

Couples who live together before they get married are at greater risk of getting a divorce, a recently released study has found, supporting previous data.

What is called the “premarital cohabitation effect” continues to be a real phenomenon, according to a study published last month in the Journal of Marriage and Family. This effect, long examined by social scientists, is that those who live together before getting married are more likely to struggle during marriage.

The study, “Cohabitation Experience and Cohabitation’s Association With Marital Dissolution,” from authors Michael Rosenfeld and Katharina Roesler suggests that such struggles involve an increased risk of divorce and that previous research arguing the effect disappeared was biased toward short versus longer-term effects, as noted Wednesday by Scott Stanley and Galena Rhoades at The Institute for Family Studies in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Those who say the negative effects of cohabiting disappeared simply did not have outcomes for divorce far enough out for those who had married in the recent cohorts that they examined, they explain.

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