Drawing on the 2006-2008 data, Princeton university researchers examined whether and to what extent variation in premarital cohabitation experiences influence marital stability.

"The overall association between premarital cohabitation and subsequent marital stability is striking," the authors wrote in their 26-page report for the Cambridge research organization.

Predicting marital stability and divorce in newly wed couples.

By the 50's, the baby sitter began to be seen as a sexual threat to marital stability.

There were people who figured that marital stability trumps honesty, and that lying was a sensible thing to do.

"The children whose parents divorced also tended to have less marital stability themselves," Dr. Friedman said.

For example, IQ does not correlate with marital stability.

Therefore, the couples' perception was used to predict marital stability or divorce.

He used couples' perceptions about their marriage and each other to predict marital stability or divorce.

Marital Relationships-including psychological intimacy and marital stability in women abused as children.