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Family Issues
Reports from T. Hansen and co-researchers add new data to research in family issues
August 18th, 2007
"This study uses data from the Norwegian NorLAG study (N = 2,455) to examine differences in relationship quality and psychological well-being between middle-aged cohabitors and married persons. The authors question whether previous results linking cohabitation as compared with marriage to lower well-being will replicate in Norway, where cohabitation is much more widespread and socially accepted and where the legal system increasingly treats cohabitation and marriage as equal," scientists writing in the Journal of Family Issues report. "The authors find that never-married cohabitors but not formerly married cohabitors report lower levels of relational and...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2007-08-18)
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