Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely
reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing …

Using data from the nationally representative 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples Survey
of different-sex cohabiting and married couples, we compared the relationship quality of …

Much research on cohabitation has focused on transitions from cohabitation to marriage or
dissolution, but less is known about how rapidly women progress into cohabitation, what …

Abstract Since the 2015 US Supreme Court ruling that marriages of same-sex couples are
legal in all states in the union, federal surveys have adapted to the shifting legal climate and …

Sex pervades our culture, going far beyond the confines of the bedroom into the workplace,
the church and the media. Yet despite all the attention and even obsession devoted to sex …

We study if (and how) transitioning into and living in an unmarried cohabitation makes
people more accepting of family dissolution. We explore if cohabitation and marriage …

Background This study examines the relationship between women's ages at their first
marriages and the marital disruption among those who experienced child marriages and …

Previous work has compared marital quality between stably married and divorced
individuals. Less work has examined the possibility of variation among divorcés in …

Understanding risk factors for relationship dissolution and poor relationship adjustment
among couples has been an active area of research in relationship science. One risk factor …

Social selection remains an enduring explanation for understanding family status
differences in relationship quality; yet, whether selection processes operate similarly (or …