Late last month, the Journal of ily published a the data 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, by the point boffins have sufficient longitudinal analysis understand if or not you’re meaningfully connected to the other, the new public norms you to formed the brand new findings usually hardly be away from used to partners now trying to figure out exactly how cohabitation you are going to connect with the relationship
But just two weeks later, the Council on Contemporary Families-a nonprofit group at the University of Texas at Austin-published a declaration that came to the exact opposite conclusion: Premarital cohabitation seemed to make couples less likely to divorce.