Fri May 12, 2023 – 5:00 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Newly released data shows that couples who cohabitate before getting married have higher rates of poor marriages and divorce.
A report on the impact of cohabitation, engagement and divorce put out by the Institute for Family Studies points to increased numbers of “marital dissolution” among couples who lived together before marriage than those who moved in after taking their marriage vows.
Based on data from couples who married between 2010 and 2019, the group determined that “not living together before marriage, or only doing so after already being engaged to marry, is associated with a lower likelihood of marriages ending than living together before being engaged.”
According to the report, 46% of the nationwide sample of American couples involved in the research lived together before engagement while 20% did so after engagement and 34% waited until after marriage. Out of these cohabiting couples, 34% did so before engagement and were more likely to experience “marital dissolution” and divorce. Comparatively, those who moved in together after engagement or marriage had a rate of 23% for the same negative impact.
The data also showed that, among the couples
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