It's now more common to have cohabited than to have married % of adults ages 18 to 44 who have
A larger share of adults have cohabited than have been married. Among adults ages 18 to 44, 59% have lived with an unmarried partner at some point in their lives, while 50% have ever been married, according to Pew Research Center analysis of the National Survey of Family Growth. By contrast, in 2002, 54% of adults in this age group had ever cohabited and 60% had ever married. Most adults ages 18 to 44 who have cohabited (62%) have only ever lived with one partner, but 38% have had two or more partners over the course of their life.
It's now more common to have  | cohabited than to have married  | % of adults ages 18 to 44 who have  | Ever cohabited  | Ever married  | 60  | 59  | 54  | 50  | 2002  | 2013-17  | Source Pew Research Center analysis of 2002 and 2013 2017  | National Survey of Family Growth. The NSFG includes data regarding  | opposite sex rela tionships only.  | Mamage and Cohabitation - the U.S.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 