@Nicole, That occurred to me as well when I first read the articles, but notice they also mentioned that couples who cohabitate don't just
experience higher divorce rates, but also lower marriage quality / satisfaction.
Not exact matches
Every County social services worker knows from direct and shocking
experience with their hapless clients that it's actually the HETEROS who are destroying marriage with their
high rate of 1)
divorce 2) spousal abuse 3) sha cking up 4) child abuse 5) abandonment 6) drugs and alcohol, etc. etc..
That same report has found that
divorced men and women both
experience higher mortality
rates and poorer mental health outcomes than their married counterparts.
In a 2005 study of 454 undergraduates, psychologist Sari Gold of Temple University and her colleagues revealed that students who had
experienced nontraumatic stressors, such as serious illness in a loved one,
divorce of their parents, relationship problems or imprisonment of someone close to them, reported even
higher rates of PTSD symptoms than did students who had lived through bona fide trauma.
Specifically, compared with children who grow up in stable, two - parent families, children born outside marriage reach adulthood with less education, earn less income, have lower occupational status, are more likely to be idle (that is, not employed and not in school), are more likely to have a nonmarital birth (among daughters), have more troubled marriages,
experience higher rates of
divorce, and report more symptoms of depression.8
2 In general, couples that cohabitate before marriage
experience lower marital quality and
divorce at a
higher rate than couples that do not cohabitate.
Women in the military
experience higher rates of
divorce than men: Army women had a
divorce rate of 8.5 percent, compared with 2.9 percent for men in the Army.
Children of families who
experience divorce have
higher rates of depression, anxiety and behavior problems and left untreated may lead to relationship problems later in life and other significant problems in adulthood.
Attorney Crawford's success
rate with
divorce litigation is
high, which she attributes to her extensive courtroom
experience early in her career.
Also, given the
higher divorce rate of interethnic marriages, findings from this study may allow relationship counsellors to help interethnic couples
experiencing relationship problems.
And those who do end up marrying each other after living together
experience a 50 %
higher divorce rate than couples who had not lived together.
Recently, literature suggests that people involved in romantic relationships
experience lower suicide
rates than single, never - married people and that
divorced, separated, and widowed persons have the
highest rates.