'Living together' before marriage a statistical risk
Posted on Mar 26, 2008 | by Michael Foust, Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (BP)--Does living together before marriage increase the chances for a successful marriage? The answer may surprise some.
Between 50 and 60 percent of all marriages begin with the two partners cohabitating, and many of those couples no doubt believe they are making a wise move up front. But living together before marriage actually increases the chances of divorce in a first marriage -- 67 percent of cohabitating couples who marry eventually divorce, compared to 45 percent of all first marriages.
That and other myth-busting facts form the core of a new book by Mike and Harriet McManus, "Living Together: Myths, Risks & Answers" (Howard Books), with a foreword by Chuck Colson. Co-founders of the organization Marriage Savers, the couple have invested much of their lives trying to help strengthen marriages and push down the divorce rate.
The biblical warnings against cohabitation, the book says, are affirmed by statistics showing it's a bad idea.
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