Remarriage in the United States: If at first they don’t succeed, do most Americans “try, try again”? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Wendy Manning, Bowling Green State University June 2, 2015 Wedding season is here again, and for many couples that is literally true. In 2013, 40 percent of […]
Topics of Expertise: Step-FamiliesFor Immediate Release Contact: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State University Sociology vrutter@gmail.com / 206 375 4139 Remarriage is–and is not–what it used to be: new report outlines diverse trends AUSTIN, TX, June 2: It is early June: Wedding season is here again, and for many couples that is literally true, states sociologist Wendy Manning in […]
By Arielle Kuperberg The University of North Carolina at Greensboro atkuperb@uncg.edu In the last 50 years, the percentage of men and women who cohabit before marriage – “living in sin” as it was still called in the 1960s – has increased by almost 900 percent. Today 70 percent of women aged 30 to 34 have […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & MarriageFor more than 20 years, researchers have reported that premarital cohabitation is associated with an elevated risk of divorce. Yet these findings have failed to deter young people from “shacking up.” Senior CCF Scholar Arielle Kuperberg’s research finds that previous studies have over-stated the divorce risk from premarital cohabitation by ignoring how old the individuals are when they move in together.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage
