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04/04/2013
A new report has revealed more couples are now choosing to live together before they get married, Yahoo has reported.
Between 2006 and 2010, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention found 48% of heterosexual women aged between 15 and 44 said they were not married to their partner when they first lived with them.
This compares to 43% of women in 2002 and 34% in 1995.
Just 23% of women said they were married when they first lived with their partner, falling from 30% in 2002 and 29% in 1995.
Almost 75% of women aged 30 or younger said they'd cohabited with a partner at some point in their lives, compared to 70% in 2002 and 62% in 1995.
However, the report also found that people are not completely dismissing marriage.
Over a three-year period of the study, 40% of couples who cohabited got married. A further 32% stayed together while 27% broke up.
Casey Copen, a demographer at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, who released the report, said financial factors were reasons for couples delaying marriage.
Other findings from the latest report revealed the length of time people lived together before marriage increased from 13 months in 1995 to 22 months, while 19% of women became pregnant within the first year of cohabitation.
(JP/CD)
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More Couples Choosing To Cohabit
A new report has revealed more couples are now choosing to live together before they get married, Yahoo has reported.
Between 2006 and 2010, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention found 48% of heterosexual women aged between 15 and 44 said they were not married to their partner when they first lived with them.
This compares to 43% of women in 2002 and 34% in 1995.
Just 23% of women said they were married when they first lived with their partner, falling from 30% in 2002 and 29% in 1995.
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Almost 75% of women aged 30 or younger said they'd cohabited with a partner at some point in their lives, compared to 70% in 2002 and 62% in 1995.
However, the report also found that people are not completely dismissing marriage.
Over a three-year period of the study, 40% of couples who cohabited got married. A further 32% stayed together while 27% broke up.
Casey Copen, a demographer at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, who released the report, said financial factors were reasons for couples delaying marriage.
Other findings from the latest report revealed the length of time people lived together before marriage increased from 13 months in 1995 to 22 months, while 19% of women became pregnant within the first year of cohabitation.
(JP/CD)
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