WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5, 2013 (Family Research Council) - Test driving a car might be a good idea, but a marriage? Forget it. The National Center for Health Statistics says more couples are living together than ever--and the outlook for society isn't exactly rosy. Believe it or not, almost half of women are choosing cohabitation--not marriage--as their "first union." Casey Copen, the study's lead author, thinks this is the new norm for America, since only 23% of the same age group (15-44) is opting to marry first. Asian Americans were the only population that didn't show a spike in "trial marriages," while 57% more Hispanics, 43% more whites, and 39% more blacks all felt the cohabiting boom. "It's kind of a ubiquitous phenomenon now," Copen tells reporters.
And while more couples are having trouble committing to each other, they don't seem to have the same trouble agreeing to kids. Almost 20% of women are giving birth in the first year of cohabiting. But unfortunately for these children, very few of their parents are sticking together. After 22 months, most partners go their separate ways. Within the first three years, Copen points out, only 40% of these women make the leap to marriage.
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