The Cohabitation EpidemicNameCourse numberInstructor’s nameDateHigher rates of separation As Warren indicates, cohabiting couples fail to realize that the attitude of a trial marriage never dies and it follows such couples into marriage (Warren 10). Such couples have conditional love that remains for as long as things between them remain unsour but when they inevitably do, they are fast in breaking their union. This is the reason why those that cohabit before marriage have a forty six percent higher chance of divorce as compared to those that refrain from cohabitation in the first place (Fitzgibbons n.p). Effect on childrenChildren require the stability from the knowledge that thei...