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Chores Look Perfectly Split Fifty Fifty on Paper in a Lot of Modern Households Now, but One Exhausted Partner Is Still Secretly Carrying Almost the Entire Mental Load of Running the Whole Family

Forty percent of dual-income couples say household chores are split evenly, according to a Pew Research…

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Renewing Your Vows Used to Be a Quiet, Low Key Anniversary Gesture Reserved for a Handful of Sentimental Couples, but Long Married Couples Are Now Turning It Into an Entire Second Wedding All Over Again

Sixty-nine percent of couples planning a vow renewal say they intend to have a reception, according…

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Premarital Counseling Still Gets Dismissed by a Lot of Couples as a Pointless, Old Fashioned Box to Check Before the Wedding, but Couples Who Actually Sit Through It Get Divorced Far Less Often Later

Couples who complete a premarital education program face roughly 31% lower odds of divorce than couples…

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Inheritance Is Supposed to Be the One Financial Topic Families Handle With Grace and Maturity After a Parent Dies, but It Is Actually Blowing Up a Shocking Number of Adult Sibling Relationships for Good

Twenty-seven percent of American adults have cut off contact with a family member entirely, roughly 67…

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Keeping a New Relationship Off Social Media Used to Be the Obvious, Cautious Default for Almost Every Couple in America, but Most Couples Now Go Fully Public With It Long Before They Actually Know If It Will Last

Half of social media users between 18 and 29 have already posted something about their dating…

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Cheating Used to Mean One Obvious Physical Line That Almost Nobody Could Argue About Crossing, but Younger Couples Now Brand a Long List of Tiny Everyday Habits as Full Blown Betrayal Too

Forty-one percent of Americans now count an ongoing flirtatious text conversation as cheating, according to a…

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College Students Get Assumed to Be Obsessed Purely With Classes, Parties, and Figuring Out Their Own Future First, but a Surprising Number Are Racing Down the Aisle Before They Even Graduate or Know Who They Really Are

A federal survey of nearly 21,000 U.S. undergraduates found that 18% of them were already married…

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Parents Swear Up and Down They Love Every One of Their Kids the Exact Same Amount No Matter What, but Almost Every Adult Sibling Can Instantly Name Which One Was the Favorite and Which One Got Quietly Left Behind

Eighty percent of older mothers, when researchers sat them down and asked directly, admitted they had…

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Stepparents Often Spend Years Raising a Child and Assume That Bond Comes With Some Kind of Real Legal Protection, but Most States Actually Hand Them Almost No Rights at All If It Ever Falls Apart

Roughly 40 percent of married couples raising children in the United States are stepfamilies, according to…