Trends in Premarital Cohabitation Rate 2006-2010

Trends in premarital cohabitation and marriage rates

Cohabitation became a much more common way for American women to begin their first serious union between 1995 and 2010. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 48% of women ages 15 to 44 interviewed from 2006 through 2010 had lived with a male partner before marriage as their first union. The share was … Read more