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- Premarital cohabitation leading to marriage, kids with greater frequency, CDC study finds
- From 2006 to 2010, 48% of unmarried women aged 15 to 44 lived with someone for first time
- Report: Nearly 20% of women became pregnant within a year of premarital cohabitation
- Couples view living together as way of testing waters for marriage, psychotherapist say
As the stigma of "living in sin" fades and more people delay marriage, researchers are finding that living together before marriage can be a stabilizing force in relationships.
Between 2006 and 2010, 48% of women between the ages of 15 and 44 moved in for the first time with a man to whom they weren't married, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. In 2002, it was 43%. In 1995, it was 34%.
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