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Study: ?Young adult attitudes about relationships and marriage?

By Alliance Alert

Child Trends: "Compared with previous generations, fewer young adults today are married, and the age of first marriage has risen. At the same time, living together?or cohabitation?is more common. In fact, cohabiting unions have become the most prevalent type of relationship among men and women in their twenties. Such increases in cohabitation have changed the context of relationship and family formation for young adults. In the past, teen births have comprised the majority of nonmarital and unintended births in the United States. However, in the context of changing patterns of relationship formation, including continually rising rates of cohabitation, the majority of births to 20- to 24- year-olds currently occur outside of marriage."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).