First Things RSS Feed - Laura Mitchell https://www.firstthings.com/author/laura-mitchell en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:46 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/laura-mitchell 60 Facebook Rhetoric https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/05/facebook-rhetoric https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/05/facebook-rhetoric Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 There are only a few lingering pink and red “marriage equality” profile pictures in my Facebook newsfeed. The magnitude of that campaign, however, was enormous. Approximately 2.7 million more Facebook users updated their profile pictures on Tuesday, March 26, than on the previous Tuesday.

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]]> Cohabitation’s Transaction Costs https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/04/cohabitations-transaction-costs https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/04/cohabitations-transaction-costs Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:01:00 -0400 Studies compete for the most accurate representation of the risk to a marriage posed by living together before the wedding, but most estimations predict somewhere around a 33 percent increased risk of divorce . Regardless of magnitude, however, they all claim the same thing: that premarital cohabitation is highly correlated with unsuccessful marriages.

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