Shacking up couples are MORE LIKELY to divorce if they marry than those who don't shack up?

This is a shocking and spurious report from Live Science. This kind of reporting should not be allowed in this country! Who do these people think they are? Some red-necked preacher totin' a Bible and a six shooter?!

This just flies in the face of conventional wisdom... I mean if 70% of couples are shacking up before marriage then it must be the right thing to do!

Hate mongers.

live science

Prenuptial Cohabiting Can Spoil Marriage

Couples who shack up before tying the knot are more likely to get divorced than their counterparts who don't move in together until marriage, a new study suggests.

Upwards of 70 percent of U.S. couples are cohabiting these days before marrying, the researchers estimate. The study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, indicates that such move-ins might not be wise.

And it's not because you start to get on one another's nerves. Rather, the researchers figure the shared abode could lead to marriage for all the wrong reasons.....

....."Cohabiting to test a relationship turns out to be associated with the most problems in relationships," Rhoades said. "Perhaps if a person is feeling a need to test the relationship, he or she already knows some important information about how a relationship may go over time."