. But there is one that is better than another? Apparently, marriage offers very few advantages in terms of welfare, health and social ties in comparison with coexistence. And these benefits fade over time.
The Economist Kelly Musick of Cornell University (United States) carried out an investigation which reached these conclusions. His study looked at changes that generates in people the life of single step to marriage and cohabitation. At the same time, it recorded if these changes persist in time or are fading away.
″Nuestra research found that marriage is by no means unique in the promotion of the well-being, that other forms of romantic relationships provide many of the same beneficios″, says the specialist, whose findings were published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Musick explains that the ″matrimonio was an important social institution for a long time but in recent decades there was an increase in living together before or instead of marriage. These changes erased the borders of marriage, generating questions surrounding difference has marriage compared to the other alternativas″.
To answer that question the expert worked with 2,737 men and women singles, of which 896 were to be married or to live together in the six years after the beginning of the investigation. Throughout the period Musick analyzed in-depth various factors related to wellness, such as physical health, happiness, depression and social ties.
And it turned out that both marriage and cohabitation begin with a period of happiness and decrease in symptoms of depression, but this tough stage little. ″Encontramos the difference between marriage and cohabitation tends to be small and dissipates after a honeymoon period. Married couples experiencing gains in the area of health, such as access to a better social work, but people living get more happiness and autoestima″, detailed Musick.
The specialist considers this difference is due to coexistence has less unwanted obligations that the marriage, which would allow ″más flexibility, autonomy and growth personal″.
On the other hand, the research also found that both marriage and living together generate a departure from family and friends in the majority of people.
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