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Marriage Take the plunge ... or run away?
Are you ready for the trip? "Marriage is a fragile institution today," says Robert Glossop, executive director of programs at Ottawa's Vanier Institute of the Family. "You can take it or leave it and more are choosing to leave it," he says. "The marriage rate is less than half the rate recorded during the 1940s, but people are 'setting up house together' at about the same rate as their parents and grandparents. They're just not marrying first." Of those who choose to leave it and live together, "four times as many men are likely to cheat on their spouses than their married counterparts," says David Reed, professor of pastoral theology at U of T's Wycliffe College. "And there is more physical abuse between couples who cohabit." Furthermore, couples who live together before they marry are more likely to dissolve their relationships, adds Glossop. "Yet, the family has a future because people still desire to live their lives with and for others." Sobering stats, prompting the question, is marriage better? Marriage is better, divorce and cohabitation are bad--David Reed, University of Toronto
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