Communication Research

Here's a great post on divorce . In addition, there's a wonderful summary of research on a variety of topics relating to divorce and relationship breakup.

In a recent NYTimes article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-downside-of-cohabiting-before-marriage.html?pagewanted=all ) Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia and the author of The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter � and How to Make the Most of Them Now, notes that c ohabitation has increased from 1960 with 450,000 cohabitating couples, to the present with 7.5 million cohabitation couples. More than 50% of marriages will be preceded by cohabitation and approximately 2/3rds of the respondents in a survey conducted in 2001 said that cohabitating was a good way to avoid divorce. But, says Jay: �Couples who cohabit before marriage (and especially before an engagement or an otherwise clear commitment) tend to be less satisfied with their marriages � and more likely to divorce � than couples who do not. These negative outcomes are called the cohabitation effect. � Perhaps the most interesting conclusion Jay draws and the one that wou...