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Originally posted by Cream
Some religions frown upon pre-marital sex and living together prior to marriage and divorce.
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Here's the thing about those studies...
It seems to me like the couples most likely to cohabitate would also be the least religious. The more religious you are, the less likely you are to get divorced since religion frowns upon divorce.
So the sorts of people who would live together are the same sorts of people who would get a divorce without much guilt or shame if they wanted one.
I don't think it's necessarily the act of sharing a living space before marriage that makes divorce more likely, but that the type of person who cohabitates is also (generally speaking) the type of person more likely to divorce (based on lack of traditional values alone... not based on simply the act of sharing an apartment before the wedding ceremony).
The ultra-religious wouldn't get divorced in all but the worst situations, and they certainly would never live together before marriage.
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