“A careful review of the available social science evidence suggests that living together is not a good way to prepare for marriage or to avoid divorce.” David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Should We Live Together?
“Marriage is an important social good, associated with an impressively broad array of positive outcomes for children and adults alike.” A Report from Family Scholars, Why Marriage Matters
“We finally know what’s different about couples that stay happily married.” Smart Marriages®
Cohabitation
Should We Live Together? What Young Adults Need to
Know About Cohabitation Before Marriage: A Comprehensive Review of Recent
Research, David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/swlt2.pdf
Marriage
Why Marriage Matters: Twenty-One Conclusions from the Social Sciences,
A Report from Family Scholars
http://www.americanvalues.org/html/r-wmm.html
The Top Ten Myths of Marriage, David Popenoe
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/pubmyths%20of%20marriage.htm
Marriage: The Safest Place for Women and Children, Patrick
F. Fagan and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/BG1535.cfm
Divorce
Does Divorce Make People Happy? Linda J. Waite, Don Browning,
William J. Doherty, Maggie Gallagher, Ye Luo, and Scott M. Stanley
The short answer is “No.”
http://www.americanvalues.org/html/r-unhappy_ii.html
Think about This before Filing for Divorce. Facts and additional links to articles about the benefits, and the possibility, of avoiding divorce http://www.smartmarriages.com/before.breakup.html
The Top Ten Myths of Divorce, David Popenoe
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/pubtoptenmyths.htm
General
Links to articles about the latest social science research regarding
marriage, divorce and cohabitation from The National Marriage Project
at Rutgers University
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/publicat.htm
Resources from Smart Marriages®, the Coalition for Marriage, Family
and Couples Education, L.L.C.
http://www.smartmarriages.com/index.html
