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Recent Articles
Cohabitation does not lead to stronger relationships
A new study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family finds that the “premarital cohabitation effect” lives on, despite what you’ve likely heard. The premarital cohabitation effect is the finding that those who live together prior to marriage are more likely, not less, to struggle in marriage.
Michael Rosenfeld and Katharina Roesler’s new findings suggest that there remains an increased risk for divorce for those living together prior to marriage, and that prior studies suggesting the effect has gone away had a bias toward short versus longer-term effects.
They find that living together before marriage is associated with lower odds […]
Innocent Mall Encounter Ends in Teen Sex Trafficking
BY CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON
Original Post: May 4, 2021
Updated: May 5, 2021
Sabrina Lopez, like many young teens in Holyoke, Massachusetts, hung out at the namesake mall. It was 2003.
She always noticed a large group of kids near an arcade and, as an insecure 13-year-old, wanted to be part of it. One boy in particular caught her attention, so when two girls in his group approached her and asked if she liked him, she said yes.
“And they were like, ‘Would you like me to put you on?’” Lopez recalled to The Epoch Times.
“And I said yes, because I thought that they were playing […]
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The Real Deal – Yvonne’s Story – Part 1
The TRUE Story of how a single mother found liberation from self-destructive habits and friends and TRANSFORMED her life. From The Real Deal documentary series at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLtStkNhR5El2vrFEfULIfQ.