Premarital cohabitation has been found to be positively correlated with the likelihood of marital dissolution in the United States. To reassess this link, I estimate proportional hazard models of marital dissolution for first marriages by using pooled data from the 1988, 1995, and 2002 surveys of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). These results suggest that the positive relationship b...

BACKGROUND Studies on Europe and the US indicate that marriage has been postponed, cohabitation has increased, and unions are more likely to dissolve. However, cross-national studies documenting these trends have typically studied each transition separately. OBJECTIVE This study aims to simultaneously capture these different partnership trends while examining heterogeneity within countries. Usi...

Abstract Article 24(4) of the Constitution Kenya qualifies right to equality “to extent strictly necessary for application of” Islamic law “in matters relating personal status, marriage, divorce and inheritance”. Section 3 Marriage Act provides that, although spouses have equal rights during marriage at its dissolution, “the parties an shall only granted under law”. The Law Succession states th...

Marriage has a positive effect on health. After the dissolution of marriage, health divorcees worsens. This study focuses whether remarriage can help person regain benefits that comes with marriage. Using national baseline data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), which conducted 2011 to 2012, this article applies instrumental variables (IV) method investigate associati...

Although divorce typically follows an extended period of unhappiness that begins early in marriage, some couples who are very happy throughout the first several years of marriage will also go on to divorce. This study aimed to identify risk factors early in marriage that distinguish initially satisfied couples who eventually divorce from those who remain married. We identified 136 couples repor...

Even though cohabitation has become more prevalent in the last few decades, the majority of the adult population is married, and marriage is associated with a number of factors, such as educational outcom and health. Understanding the marrie population is also an important part of understanding partnering behaviour and family formation and dissolution. The length of marriages and whether they a...

In Germany the life satisfaction of those in first marriages traces the following average course. Starting from a baseline of life satisfaction in noncohabiting years one or more years prior to marriage, those who cohabit prior to marriage have an increase in life satisfaction significantly above the baseline. In the year of marriage and that immediately following, the life satisfaction of thos...