Question

What is the relationship, if any, between people who cohabitate and then get married, and those people who wait to live together after they marry?

a. cohabitating, unmarried partners have a slightly higher divorce rate after they get married than those who don't cohabitate until after marriage.
b. cohabitating, unmarried partners have a slightly lower divorce rate after they get married than those who don't cohabitate until after marriage.
c. cohabitating, unmarried partners have the exact same divorce rate as the people who don't cohabitate until marriage.
d. it does not matter because divorce occurs when two people are incompatible and does not depend on how long people have lived with each other?

Answer 1

It is A. Cohabitants may live respectively so as to spare cash, due to the comfort of living with another, or a need to discover lodging. Lower salary people confronting money related vulnerability may postpone or maintain a strategic distance from marriage, not just due to the trouble of paying for a wedding yet in addition as a result of dread of monetary hardship if a marriage were to end in separation.