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More Kids Born to Parents Livin' in Sin

Polly Davis Doig — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:41:40 CDT

It's a demographic trend to wreck an elementary school chant: First comes love, then comes ... mama and the baby carriage? The number of unmarried new moms living with a male shot up from 9% in 1985 to a whopping 27% from 2003 to 2010, according to a new study. That...

Marriage Won't Make You Happier: Study

Kevin Spak — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:30:05 CST

If you're living with your significant other, don't worry too much about tying the knot, because it won't make you any happier, according to a new study. The study followed 2,737 single men and women for six years, watching as 896 of them either got married or moved in...

In Florida, Living in Sin Is Also Breaking the Law

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:48:02 CDT

You may not know it, but if you’re an unmarried Florida couple currently living together, you’re breaking the law. Such cohabitation is a second-degree misdemeanor, and it could cost you up to $500 or 60 days in jail. The law, which dates back to the 1800s, is in the news...

4 in 10 Say Marriage Is Becoming Obsolete

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:36:38 CST

As marriage rates fall , more Americans believe that marriage is becoming obsolete: About 39% of Americans, to be exact. That number is up from 28% who held the same belief in 1978, according to a new study. Nearly one in three children in the US lives with a divorced, separated,...

Marriage Rates Fall: Who Can Afford It?

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:35:43 CDT

Marriage: Who needs, er, can afford it these days? Apparently quite a few can't, as there are more never-married young adults than married young adults for the first time in more than a century, the New York Times reports. The data, from last year’s census, suggest that the recession is...

Miley Not Ready for Live-In Love

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:17:10 CDT

Miley Cyrus isn’t ready to move in with her 20-year-old boyfriend—not because she’s a mere 16 years old, but because she gets “annoyed really easily,” the New York Post reports. The Disney starlet told a Detroit radio station, “Just like, everything has to, like, go where it's supposed to...

Peterson Fiancee, After Bolting, Moves Back In

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:31:13 CST

Drew Peterson’s latest galpal—who claimed last week their engagement was nothing more than a publicity stunt—has moved back in with the suspected wife killer, the Joliet Herald News reports. The move comes less than two weeks after 24-year-old Christina Raines moved out of Peterson’s house with the help...

While We're At It, Give Marriage a Bailout

Ambreen Ali — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:00:01 CST

Between the recession and various legal knots, it’s no wonder so many Americans are eschewing marriage, Mark Penn writes in the Wall Street Journal . Either go with the bailout flow and revamp tax codes and the like to make marriage easier and less financially constrictive, or use similar tactics to...

Live-In Lovers Hit Record Number

Peter Fearon — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:23:00 CDT

The number of unmarried heterosexual couples living together reached a record 6.4 million in 2007, or 10% of all hetero couples who share a home, according to the Census Bureau. It's a snapshot of the changing American family. Some 2.5 million of the couples—45.5%—are raising...