But there are some surprises: serious illness typically does not make us much less happy, marriage in the long run is not a major source of either happiness or unhappiness.
It is often assumed that cohabitation is much less stable than marriage.
It is often assumed that cohabitation is much less stable than marriage, which would mean that if cohabitation were to become more common among parents, children would be increasingly exposed to the risk of eventually living in single-parent families and step-family arrangements (Osborne and McLanahan 2007; Jensen and Clausen 2003).
In those days, no movement in Judaism, including my own, knowingly ordained gay people, much less sanctioned their marriages.
"We talk about Tipper and Al like we know them, even though none of us know the truth of anyone's marriage, much less their divorce".
The Catholic Church, which is still recovering from its paedophile scandal, is much less trenchant on gay marriage than it is about abortion.
In this country, that number has been rising steadily since the 1970s, long before anyone was talking about same-sex marriage, much less starting one.
But for what it is worth, in a survey from 2011 of Japan's three largest cities, only two-thirds of wives said they felt positive about their marriage, much less than their husbands; in America, both husbands and wives usually report higher and similar levels of satisfaction.
marriage policy at the women's group Legal Momentum, told me she finds it "obscene" that, in the face of coming cuts in housing subsidies and other services, H.H.S. is planning to spend any money at all on marriage, much less the $200 million now proposed.
To our knowledge, no one today cites this 'marriage-friendly' trend to challenge deinstitutionalization – much less to argue that marriage is being reinstitutionalized.
