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That is an interesting source. I especially enjoyed some of the facts:

Marriages preceded by cohabitation are 50 to 100 percent more likely to break up than those not preceded by cohabitation. That is an absurd statement.

All the material in the source referred to cohabitation before marriage. You orignal statement in post #548 was about sex before marriage. Granted, cohabitatants do have sex before marriage but most sex before marriage takes place outside of cohabitiation.

BTW: If the cohabitatants cited had been married, it sure would make the marriage statistics look bad. :-)

First of all, I said that it was a start. So you have issued a challenge have you? We shall see who wins this one. Right now, however, I can't devote anymore time to this. Expect to get pinged in the next few days.

Marriages preceded by cohabitation are 50 to 100 percent more likely to break up than those not preceded by cohabitation. That is an absurd statement.

There is nothing absurd on the face of this statement.

I assume you have a study which proves that most cohabitation takes place outside of marriage? And unless you are completely anal retentive (and I am not excluding that possibility), you should be able to acknowledge that it is fair at least to make strong inferences about the effects of premarital sex by studying cohabitation.