Family Facts: Social Science Research on Family, Society & Religion
| As
more couples opt to live together before marriage, research on cohabitation
has increased. Using data collected from 1,400 individuals who married
between 1964 and 1997, a 2003 study sought to find out whether cohabitation
had an effect on subsequent marriage. The study found that cohabitation was associated with lower marital happiness, increased marital conflict, and a greater risk of divorce for both older and younger respondents. These cohabitation effects remained even when the analysis adjusted for demographic and other characteristics associated with cohabitation, such as respondents’ marital history, education level, parental marital status, family income, and previous welfare use. Read this finding The Heritage Foundation's familyfacts.org catalogs social science findings on the family, society and religion gleaned from peer-reviewed journals, books and government surveys. Serving policymakers, journalists, scholars and the general public, familyfacts.org makes social science research easily accessible to the non-specialist. |
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Findings on Cohabitation and Marriage:
 Individuals who divorced and then cohabited before remarrying reported, on average, less happiness in the remarriage...(more) Cohabiting relationships and marriages that began with cohabitation tended to be less stable...(...(more) Family Research Experts:
Pat Fagan William H. G. FitzGerald Research Fellow in Family and Cultural Issues Christine Kim Policy Analyst, Domestic Policy Studies Jennifer Marshall Director, Domestic Policy Studies For Interviews call Media Relations at (202) 675-1761 |
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Events:Religious Practice and Civic Life: What the Research Says October 4, 2007 |