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Edited by Linda M. Bartoshuk, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, and authorized May 1, 2013 (received for review 24, 2012 december)
Abstract
Marital discord is expensive to young ones, families, and communities. The advent associated with the online, social network, and online relationship has impacted exactly just how people meet future partners, but little is well known in regards to the prevalence or results of those marriages or perhaps the demographics of the included. We addressed these questions in a sample that is nationally representative of participants whom married between 2005 and 2012. Outcomes suggest that significantly more than one-third of marriages in the usa now start online. In addition, marriages that started online, in comparison to those who started through old-fashioned off-line venues, had been somewhat less likely to want to end up in a marital break-up (separation or divorce proceedings) and had been related to slightly greater marital satisfaction those types of participants who stayed hitched.