Comments on: Gender-Neutral Housing a Campus Possibility http://thepointnews.com/2010/04/gender-neutral-housing-a-campus-possibility Fri, 04 May 2012 00:01:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lowell http://thepointnews.com/2010/04/gender-neutral-housing-a-campus-possibility/comment-page-1#comment-911 Lowell Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:16:01 +0000 http://thepointnews.com/?p=3122#comment-911 Correction: ..Wheaton College in Illinois, where gender-neutral housing was recently implemented... That should be Wheaton College in Massachusetts, not Illinois (see http://www.genderblind.org/archives/232). I don't think that is happening any time soon at Wheaton in Illinois since they encourage students to be married before living together... From http://www.leaderu.com/critical/cohabitation-socio.html Yale University sociologist Neil Bennett: cohabiting women were 80% more likely to separate or divorce than were women who had not lived with their spouses before marriage. A study by researchers Alfred DeMars and Gerald Leslie (1984) found that those who live together prior to marriage scored lower on tests rating satisfaction with their marriages than couples who did not cohabit. Correction: ..Wheaton College in Illinois, where gender-neutral housing was recently implemented…

That should be Wheaton College in Massachusetts, not Illinois (see http://www.genderblind.org/archives/232). I don’t think that is happening any time soon at Wheaton in Illinois since they encourage students to be married before living together…

From http://www.leaderu.com/critical/cohabitation-socio.html
Yale University sociologist Neil Bennett: cohabiting women were 80% more likely to separate or divorce than were women who had not lived with their spouses before marriage.

A study by researchers Alfred DeMars and Gerald Leslie (1984) found that those who live together prior to marriage scored lower on tests rating satisfaction with their marriages than couples who did not cohabit.

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