The third full week of September is Unmarried and Single Americans Week. The Census Bureau has been commemorating that event for 20 years. That is no small thing in a nation so smitten by marriage, a nation in which people who are legally married – regardless of the quality or length of that marriage – […]
The Rand Corporation’s New and Misleading Study
July 22, 2013 by
In June 2013, the Rand Corporation released a study called, “Cohabitation and Marriage Intensity: Consolidation, Intimacy, and Commitment” based on 2010 Census data. The study addresses general societal anxiety over rising divorced rates by looking at the effect of cohabitation before marriage. In other words, the authors of this study ask: do divorce rates rise […]
