Posted on 11/16/2019 4:29:20 PM PST by DoodleBob
The share of adults who have lived with a romantic partner is now higher than the share who have ever been married; married adults are more satisfied with their relationships, more trusting of their partners.
As more U.S. adults are delaying marriage – or forgoing it altogether – the share who have ever lived with an unmarried partner has been on the rise. Amid these changes, most Americans find cohabitation acceptable, even for couples who don’t plan to get married, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Even so, a narrow majority says society is better off if couples in long-term relationships eventually get married.
The survey also examines how adults who are married and those who are living with an unmarried partner are experiencing their relationships. It finds that married adults are more satisfied with their relationship and more trusting of their partners than those who are cohabiting.
The share of U.S. adults who are currently married has declined modestly in recent decades, from 58% in 1995 to 53% today. Over the same period, the share of adults who are living with an unmarried partner has risen from 3% to 7%. While the share who are currently cohabiting remains far smaller than the share who are married, the share of adults ages 18 to 44 who have ever lived with an unmarried partner (59%) has surpassed the share who has ever been married (50%), according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).
Young adults are particularly accepting of cohabitation – 78% of those ages 18 to 29 say it’s acceptable for an unmarried couple to live together, even if they don’t plan to get married – but majorities across age groups share this view.
(Excerpt) Read more at pewsocialtrends.org ...
Because it’s not Christian. Conservatives have traditionally believed in the precepts of Christianity.
Ed
My church preaches it all the time...
Did you marry him?
Even without children (she probably had abortions because he didn’t want any “honey I don’t want to share you”) its the woman who had to give up her affordable apartment to move in with the man in his bigger and more expensive one so that when he kicks her out, finds another girlfriend she is the one without a home the one who has to move...
and she probably bought furniture etc to improve his apartment, paid half the rent, food, entertainment, internet, cable TV utilities etc...(like a regular roommate but with “marital privileges” for him)
if she didn’t make enough to put something aside she wont have enough money up front to start again in her own apartment...(these things can happen suddenly one day he loves her the next he loves another girl)
but Hey !!! she was in love...its all good while it lasts and it was forever...in her mind...
...and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for adulterers and fornicators God will judge. Hebrews 13:4
and a disclaimer...
no Ive never lived in sin...
but I imagine this scenario happens more than often...
The state has co-opted marriage... What was marriage in Biblical times is not what we have today. Whereas it was once a covenant between man, a woman and God, now it’s the state that’s in charge. The state corrupts it.
I don’t blame people opting out of what the state calls marriage. After all, today it can be two people of any sex, and God isn’t involved at all. It’s a farce...
I'm a four-time offender. Mea culpa: outside forces came into play in the first two, but we'd intended to get married. The first and I were literally heading to a jeweler then the courthouse to tie the knot, but thought better of it, because our parents would have wanted a more formal church marriage. Thank God we called it off because I discovered she was a raving lunatic prone to violence. (Rule #1: never bump uglies with a co-worker, much less shack up with them. It becomes a soap opera. Everyone is digging in your shorts and knows your business.) The second was a Chinese girl who was young, a bit naive, estranged from her father, and was trying to get back in his good graces. He found out his little girl had been shacking up with Ol' Round Eyes for a year, and that was that. (Rule #2, let that be a lesson: always keep the rent paid for your own place as a backup, lest ye end up sleeping under a tree at the local park. At least I still had a place to hang my hat and drown my sorrows in a bourbon bottle in the aftermath.) The third I married and it was a bust. But she had a nice one, and I think I was more concerned with it than my decision to marry a Muslim Turk to begin with. (Well, hindsight being 20/20, and all that.......) The fourth I also married and we've been together 21 years now. In between all of them, I just bounced in between beds and relationships. If this current one goes in the crapper, I'm just gonna go to Rent-A-Wife and lease a younger model with a warranty and a no-fault return plan. LOL!!!!
“Why is it that heterosexuals do not want to get married but homosexuals do want to get married?”
I don’t think homosexuals wanting to marry had nearly as much to do with it as the legal profession desiring to cash in on their breakups.
The only incentive for men to marry is the ironclad paternity. It doesn’t always compete well with the certainty of having to cash out a wife when she tires of you.
Yes.
The homosexual lobby just wants to bully those that reject homosexuality as wrong and dangerous into submission. They won, they have what they wanted so now move on to the next issue. They think they deserve whatever they want because of the way they have sex.
“Many young men today view marriage as risky due to the high rates of divorce and what’s at stake financially.”
Also I think many young women feel the “freedom” to engage in “hookups” after years of repression of their sexual desires and men take advantage of that and the women realize too late their “freedom” was actually enslavement.
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