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U.S. marriage rate continues decline; men tie knot later

A new study asserts that marriages and cohabiting relationships aren?t all that different in the long run. Instead, after a few years, married couples look like unmarried couples on measures of well-being, health and social ties, researchers Larry Bumpass of University of Wisconsin at Madison and Kelly Musick of Cornell University write in the February 2012 issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.