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Authors Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller are available for interviews. They are experienced television and radio talk show guests.
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Solot and Miller at (518) 462-4742. If you get voicemail, leave them a
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Top Ten Reasons Why Unmarried Couples Aren't
Married (Yet)
Fun Facts
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Sample
Interview Questions:
- Why did you write Unmarried to Each Other?
- You interviewed 100 people around the country when you were
researching the book. What did you learn that surprised you
most?
- What's the most important advice you would give couples
who are thinking about moving in together?
- Is there anything cohabiting couples should know, that most
of them don't?
- Some people would be horrified if their daughter said she
was going to live with her boyfriend. What do you say to them?
- What were your favorite stories from all the people you
interviewed?
- Won't the sweeping changes you recommend in laws and policies
undermine family values?
- Who should read the book?
Top Ten Reasons Why
Unmarried Couples Aren't Married (Yet)
Based on research conducted for Unmarried to Each Other
1. Living together as a step between dating and marriage
2. The time isn't right
3. Don't want to become a wife (or husband)
4. To avoid divorce
5. To stay away from City Hall
6. Financial reasons
7. Religious reasons
8. Marriage doesn't represent the relationship
9. They can't
10. No compelling reason to marry
Fun Facts
- Cohabitation increased 1,000% between 1960 and 2000.
- Most couples live together before they tie the knot.
- If all cohabitors lived in the same city, it would be larger
than New York City and Chicago combined.
- Today, men more often want to get married, and women are
more often the ones dragging their heels.
- Forty percent of babies of so-called "single mothers" are
actually born to cohabiting two-parent families (the mothers
are single only in the legal sense).
- It's not true that if you live together for seven years,
you form a common law marriage.
- Canada, France, and Sweden give unmarried couples the same
rights as married ones.
For more
information, see the website of the Alternatives to Marriage Project, the national
non-profit organization the authors founded.
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