Thursday, August 10, 2006

CO-HABITATING IS ONLY SERIOUS DATING

So says Cornell University. Their study shows that co-habitating couples are in an intense form of dating that is not necessarily a stepping stone for marriage.

Research as part of a Cornell University study revealed that the average time couples spend “living together” is less than two years and that only 4 percent of cohabiting couples stay together for more than ten years. Half of all cohabiting “unions” end within a year, and 90 percent within five years. As ever, it is the children who suffer from this laissez-faire approach to relationships. Within five years of the birth of a child, 52 percent of cohabitants split up. This compares to 25 percent of those cohabiting couples who marry after the birth of the child, and only 8 percent of those couples who were already married when the child was born. Thus the experts have finally come to the earth-shattering (and earth-shatteringly obvious) conclusion that marriage is good for the stability of relationships and crucial to the well-being of children. Read More.

Of course these are things that many of us already new, but now Cornell can tell us from an academic perspective.

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