FEARS OF DIVORCE MAY BE KEEPING YOUNG COUPLES FROM MARRIAGE

in Children & Divorce, Divorce, Family Law, Fears of Divorce

In the United States today, the percentage of married adults has reached an all time low. Researchers form the University of Central Oklahoma and Cornell University conducted a study, which was published in the December 2011 issue of Family Relations, into the diminishing rate of marriage by interviewing 122 people in cohabitating relationships. By interviewing these people, the researchers found that 67 percent of these cohabitating couples had fears about the emotional, financial, social and legal consequences of divorce, and the worries of having to deal with the fallout of divorce , made them leery of marriage. The researchers found that middle-class couples had a...