What is the best advice you've ever heard about marriage?

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• i agree

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  by kuyakev on February 17th, 2007

• really good advice.

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  by Mrs.Dufresne on February 25th, 2007

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• This was a great answer. I dont see why you were down-rated.

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  by anonymous on February 15th, 2007

• who makes statistic? Or did you go and make the study yourself? just wondering

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  by Nam1310 on February 15th, 2007

• I heard it on the radio let me see if I can find a link for you.

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/livingtogether.html

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• "There have actually been numerous studies that have examined whether living together before marriage is a good idea. The data shows that people who have multiple cohabiting relationships before marriage are more likely to experience marital conflict, marital unhappiness and eventual divorce than people who do not cohabit before marriage.1 "

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• http://members.aol.com/cohabiting/soc.htm

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• Those who live together before marriage are the least likely to marry each other.
  A Columbia University study cited in New Woman magazine found that "only 26% of women surveyed and a scant 19% of the men married the person with whom they were cohabiting." A more comprehensive National Survey of Families and Households, based on interviews with 13,000 people, concluded, "About 40% of cohabiting unions in the U.S. break up without the couple getting married." One of the reasons may be that those who cohabit drift from one partner to another in search of the right' person. The average cohabitant has several partners in a lifetime.
  
  Those who live together before marriage have higher separation and divorce rates.
  Depending on the specific statistical methods used it was found that couples who marry after a period of cohabitation are at a 35% to 50% greater risk of separating and/or divorcing than marriages without prior cohabitation (Seltzer, 2000; Teachman, 2002; Teachman, 2003). American Sociological Review reported the findings of Yale University sociologist Neil Bennett that cohabiting women were 80% more likely to separate or divorce than were women who had not lived with their spouses before marriage (Bennett, et. al. 1988). Other studies show that those who have any type of pre-marital cohabiting experience have a 50 to 100 percent greater likelihood of divorce than those who do not cohabit premaritally (Axxinn and Thornton, 1992; Bumpass, Sweet and Cherlin, 1991; T. R. Balakrishnan, et al.1987).
  

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• There are two big links, sufficent enough for you?

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• can you find a website that isn't religious? nothing against religion but sometimes it can be one sided

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  by Nam1310 on February 15th, 2007

• I will look, but those sites also cite specific studies.

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/cohabit.htm

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/000302/cohabit.shtml

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• Is that enough to prove to you that co-habiting is actually bad and maybe the church has a point on this? Or are you attached to the liberal matra of if Christians say its bad then we should do it!

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  by Valparaiso on February 15th, 2007

• i respect your opinion but imposing it on other people not good. Your opinion is simply that, YOUR OPINION. Personally i don't believe that people should live together before marriage but who are we to judge? You aren't god? And maybe marriages that co-habit will work or not but it's not for you to pre-judge. Cause just like a non co-habiting marriage can work it can also fail.

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  by Nam1310 on February 15th, 2007

• I am saying that its my opinion but I'm also saying that my opinion is well founded in facts. Trust me I have no belief that I can control people, one of my cousins lives with her fiance now. (they just got engaged)

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  by Valparaiso on February 16th, 2007

• Counsel is advice/guidance - council is a gathering of officials (like city council). Too many homophones in English! :-)

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  by Jessicax23 on February 17th, 2007

• Ok, I would never pretend to be a good speller because I've known I was bad at it since the third grade when we first started taking spelling tests. I remember the first word I ever had in a spelling test was "grass"

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  by Valparaiso on February 17th, 2007

• it was the right spelling, just not for that meaning. that's one definite glitch in our mother tongue, that's for sure.

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  by Jessicax23 on February 17th, 2007

• yeah I know, I'm sometimes bad at that too.

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  by Valparaiso on February 17th, 2007

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• thats cute i rated u up for that especially your avitar,lol

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  by lizizhere on February 25th, 2007

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