COHABITATION IS NOT MARRIAGE
JAN 10, 2012 The following article looks at world-wide trends of the rise in cohabitation. Nobody wins in cohabiting relationships; children experience damaging effects and divorce rates are much...
View ArticleWe Wish More for You
We can’t help but shake our heads at the following article. We wish more for girls than to settle for the world’s standards. Bristol Palin has been in the spotlight for being the daughter of a...
View ArticleNew Study on Cohabitation
The Institute for American Values and The University of Virginia: National Marriage Project released a study recently called “State of our Unions,” which showed that the number of people in the United...
View ArticleThe Unraveling of the Cohabitation Problem
That’s right: problem. Cohabitation is the problem, NOT the solution for the high rates of divorce in the United States. Cohabitation is the artificial mask of marriage. Twenty-something’s know they...
View ArticleThe Cohabitation Effect
The cohabitation effect can be defined as the negative outcomes of cohabitation before marriage, such as less satisfying marriages and divorce. The New York Times featured an article in April that...
View Article1 in 4 Babies are Born to Cohabitating Couples
According to a new report by the National Center for Health Statistics that was released last month, 23% of babies born are to unmarried couples who are living together. This number represents an 83%...
View ArticleCohabitation: The Facts
The conclusion of a recent study performed by the National Center for Health Statistics was that those who cohabitate before marriage are at no greater risk for divorce. The only word that can describe...
View ArticleHappily Married: The Reasons Why
The facts are in! Married individuals are generally happier, healthier, and live longer than individuals who are not married. So why are people choosing to cohabitate rather than marry? The following...
View ArticleCohabitation and Childbirth
National Center for Health Statistics released a study that showed that among cohabitating women, from 2006-2010, 23% are having children. This number was an increase from the 2002 survey which...
View Article“Do You Really Need a Test Drive?”
Anne Reiner, a Baptist Press columnist, wrote the following article giving specific examples of how cohabitation is affecting the divorce rate in the United States. Reiner quotes Mike McManus,...
View ArticleCo-ed campus living
The media has unknowingly highlighted a huge discrepancy between the presupposition that all youth will have sex, and the new ideology that youth can have purely platonic friendships, without benefits,...
View ArticleAbstinence Protects from Performance Based Love
Today’s mainstream culture says for you to be loved or to have a successful relationship you have to be sexually promiscuous. Mainstream culture also says you have to become sexually active before you...
View ArticleAbstinence Helps Lower Teen Birth Rates
A new study released on Thursday, May 29th, 2014 showed that America’s total fertility rate has hit a low that has not been experiences since 1986. At just 1.86 births per woman, American is now on the...
View ArticleSliding vs. Deciding
The trend of cohabitation is growing rapidly throughout our nation and our world. But why are couples deciding to live together instead of getting married? Scott Stanley of the University of Denver...
View ArticleAn Insult to Your Beloved
Cohabitation is like telling your significant other, “I’m not totally sure about you. Can I give you a test-drive first, so I can be sure?”[i] This ambiguity leads to increased troubles in the...
View Article“Hook-Up” Marriages
A new study was released last Tuesday that brought insight into whether or not a hook-up can lead to a wedding. A shockingly-high number of 32% said that their relationship with their eventual spouse...
View ArticleFriends with Benefits…Not So Beneficial
For many young adults who are afraid of commitment, being “friends with benefits” sounds like an attractive solution. They can engage in a casual sexual relationship without getting emotionally...
View ArticleIntentionally Married, Happily Married
John Stonestreet from BreakPoint has released some interesting data and conservative strategies regarding the “extinction of marriage” in America. It’s true that barely half of adults in the U.S. are...
View ArticleDownside of Cohabiting Before Marriage
Social media has been circulating an article called, "The Downside of Cohabitating Before Marriage." It presents great facts, but ends by not taking a stand on whether or not cohabitating is bad. The...
View ArticleCohabitation & Future Marital Stability
In the last 1960's only about 8% of marriages were preceded with cohabitation. Today over 50% of marriages are preceded by a period of cohabitation. Many couples gradually slide into this decision...
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