Advantages and disadvantages to cohabiting

Item from the Smart Marriages Archive, reproduced in the Divorce Statistics Collectio n

Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of living together
outside of marriage, according to the University of Chicago study:

* Cohabiting couples had sex more often than married couples, an average
of one additional sex act a month.

* Women in cohabiting relationships did 10 hours more housework than
their male partners, while married women did 14 more hours of housework
than their husbands.

* Men in cohabiting relationships were less likely to support their
partners financially than married men.

* Cohabiting couples had the lowest level of wealth among household
types, comparable to families headed by a single mother. Two-parent
families and stepfamilies had the highest level of wealth.

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