A new study in the European Sociological Review shows that even in wealthy, egalitarian Norway, cohabitees were three times as likely to split as those who married without first cohabiting. The study examines the period 1970 to 2007. It looks at the likelihood of couples with children and without children splitting up, and at the likelihood of married and cohabiting couples splitting up. It finds that couples with children are less likely to split up than couples without children.
