Wood, Robert G.; Avellar, Sarah; Goesling, Brian - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
also increasingly accepting of cohabitation before marriage and report wanting to wait until later in life to marry. …In recent years, marriage patterns in the U.S. have changed dramatically, with adults spending more time unmarried, and … cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing becoming increasingly common. To examine these potential precursors of changes in adult …