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Originally posted by sugar and spice
I think people are incorrectly inferring causation from correlation here.
I think the reason for this statistic is that people who live together before marriage tend to have more liberal views towards marriage, thus they are more likely to leave a marriage that isn't working out. People with more conservative views towards marriage are less likely to live together before marriage and more likely to stay in an unhappy marriage, trying to make it work.
I don't think that the idea that living together before marriage causes divorce is true at all.
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There's all sorts of wonderful research (yes, we all know research can be biased, but this group found information from all sides of the issue) on
www.unmarried.org. It's great how they blew that myth out of the water.
