cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/184069

All I found with citations was that it’s best to wait until marriage before cohabitation, but that boomer talk ain’t gonna happen for zoomers.

Otherwise, 1 article said “wait as long as possible” but I need a month/year number lmao.

  •  CatsGoMOW   ( @CatsGoMOW@beehaw.org ) 
    3•1 year ago

    It can hardly be called a “well-known fact.” There are many conflicting studies on this matter, even coming from the same research organizations. For example, this snippet from an article in The Atlantic:

    In 2012, a study in the Journal of Marriage and Family concluded that “since the mid-1990s, whether men or women cohabited with their spouse prior to marriage is not related to marital stability.” This is the same journal that just published a study finding the opposite.

    Here is that study.

    •  thalamus_reborn   ( @thalamus_reborn@lemmy.ml ) 
      1•1 year ago

      perhaps i need to revisit the subject in detail, but a posted above a more recent study from 2019 which looks at the same subject.

      like i said in a comment above, i’m happy to be proven wrong about this, i was just reporting what i knew about it from academic experience.