Unmarried couples who live together are staying together longer than in the past — and more of them are having children, according to the first federal data out Thursday that details just how cohabitation is transforming families across the USA.
For almost half of women ages 15-44, their “first union” was cohabitation rather than marriage, says the report from the National Center for Health Statistics. For less than one-quarter, the first union was marriage. The report was based on in-person interviews conducted between 2006 and 2010 with 12,279 women ages 15-44. Read more…
by Patrick Fagan
This article was first published at The Public Discourse on March 11, 2013.
This year, the Supreme Court will render judgment on the institution of marriage. Though most of us don’t realize it, the Court first did so forty-one years ago in Eisenstadt v. Baird, a decision that gravely wounded marriage and set the nation on a course of gradual debilitation by ruling that states could not restrict the sale of contraceptives to unmarried people. Read more…
Categories: Abortion, Birth Control, Children, Co habitation, contraception, Marriage, Newsletter articles, Planned Parenthood, Politics & Marriage Tags: Abortion, birth control, Children, cohabitation, contraception, Marriage, politics and marriage
February 12th, 2013
Betsy
by Carolyn Moynihan
The religious lives of young people are being damaged by family breakdown, a new report shows. How will churches respond?
Christians throughout the West are dismayed at plummeting church attendance figures. They blame video games, or left-wing teachers, or Richard Dawkins. But perhaps the real answer is closer to home — their own families. Read more…
February 11th, 2013
Betsy
by Patrick Fagan
February 6th, 2013 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/02/7821/
Family, church, and school are the three basic people-forming institutions, and it is no wonder that they produce the best results–including economic and political ones–when they cooperate.
Even if all the market reforms of the Washington think tanks, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes Magazine were enacted, we’d still need to kiss the Great American Economy goodbye. Below the level of economic policy lies a society that is producing fewer people capable of hard work, especially married men with children. As the retreat from marriage continues apace, there are fewer and fewer of these men, resulting in a slowly, permanently decelerating economy. Read more…
Categories: Children, Co habitation, Divorce, family, Marriage, Newsletter articles, Religion Tags: cohabitation, Divorce, family, Marriage, Religion
by Carolyn Moynihan
A press release just in from a MercatorNet partner:
January 25, 2013 (Ottawa) - Today the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Quebec can exclude cohabiting couples from receiving spousal support in the event of relationship breakdown. Read more…
by Mariette Ulrich
The short answer, according to a recent study, is Yes, No, Maybe, and It depends. Read more…
by Bernard Toutounji
I have been going out with my girlfriend for almost three months and thankfully all is going very well. I was filling in a friend on this news the other day and at the end of the conversation the person asked me, with a face of anticipated excitement, “Will you be moving in together”? I was initially surprised by the question as I imagined it was obvious to most people I know where I would stand on such an issue. However I guess that it is no longer ‘obvious’ why a young dating couple would decide not to pack their bags and find a place together. Let me explain then why I have decided not to share a bed with my girlfriend. Read more…
by Carolyn Moynihan
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We have talked a fair bit on this website about cohabitation. Indeed, the custom of living together before marriage is now so widespread, and problematic, that even the New York Times recently carried a warning about its downside. Read more…
By MEG JAY
AT 32, one of my clients (I’ll call her Jennifer) had a lavish wine-country wedding. By then, Jennifer and her boyfriend had lived together for more than four years. The event was attended by the couple’s friends, families and two dogs.
When Jennifer started therapy with me less than a year later, she was looking for a divorce lawyer. “I spent more time planning my wedding than I spent happily married,” she sobbed. Most disheartening to Jennifer was that she’d tried to do everything right. “My parents got married young so, of course, they got divorced. We lived together! How did this happen?” Read more…
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