House of SinThere's an article on the Brisbane Times website about how cohabiting prior to marriage is no protection against divorce.
It's not until the 5th paragraph of the article that it goes on to mention:
The explanation lies in the kind of people who choose to live together in the first place. They are less likely to be religious, or bound by traditional or cultural values. Dr Hewitt said they were likely to be more open to divorce as a way out of a bad marriage.
The remainder of the article, however, goes to talk about divorce as if it's the worst outcome for a couple. To my mind, being trapped in a bad marriage because your religion, your family or your culture places a stigma on divorce would be far worse. That's not to say a lot people don't get married for the wrong reasons, but that group includes youngsters taking the traditional god-fearing route, only it seems that for them, a bad marriage might be far harder to escape from.
2 comments:
I completely agree with you: "being trapped in a bad marriage because your religion, your family or your culture places a stigma on divorce would be far worse".
You could forget about the idea of ever being happy.
So true. I'd say nowdays for those people that do wait before marriage before living together it is through religious reasons. And therefore less likely to get divorced anyway. It's a false premise to suggest cohabitation is the cause for more relationships failing because of the artificial spike in people being unhappy in this world for the sake of what's supposedly coming in the next.
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