Cohabitación is Fornication
U .S. divorce rates are dropping. Good news? Hardly. Some have lauded the fact that the divorce rate in America has been dropping for over a decade. The ugly truth behind that statistic is that, rather than marrying, couples are simply living together. Since the 1960s, the number of cohabiting couples has increased 1,200 percent. The story behind that statistic is simple: Fewer American couples are getting married in the first place. In fact, the number of unmarried couples living together has increased 1,200 percent ( to more than 5 million) since 1960. Today, more than half of all people getting married for the first time live with their sex partners first. An even higher percentage of divorced people who remarry cohabit first. And watch this trend escalate: A growing number of cohabiting couples have no plans for marriage. Many Americans (high school seniors included) now vi...