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Does ?living in sin? still lead to divorce?

By Alliance Alert

Newsweek: "As cohabiting has come more common across the country . . . the once strong link between 'living in sin' and divorce has weakened over time. While some religious groups, such as socially conservative Christians and Orthodox Jews, still frown upon living together before marriage, two thirds of marriages in the U.S. now start as cohabitations. 'Something that used to be stigmatized is now becoming the common experience,' Smock says . . . Many of the cohabitations that started for economic reasons during the Great Recession are 'fragile' and probably won?t result in marriage, says Wendy Manning, associate director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research at Bowling Green State University."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 06, 2010 (boomark / email).