Fifty per cent couples in
the US are choosing to live together before they are married and forty per cent
of them end up tying the knot, according to new research. The number of women
who move in before marriage has increased across all race groups, except for
Asian women, the study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
found. Researchers found that between 2006 and 2010, about half of women
included in the study had lived in with a partner before getting married,
versus 43 per cent in 2002 and 34 per cent in 1995. The relationships might
even be better for it as 40 per cent of those women ended up married within
three years and one in five became pregnant, New York Daily News reported. The
amount of time couples live together before marriage has also increased - from
an average of 13 months in 1995 to 22 months in 2006-2010. Education plays a
big part in cohabitation, according to the study. Seventy per cent of women
without a high school diploma moved in before marriage, versus 47 per cent of
women with at least a bachelor's degree. Experts said the data reflects on
looser attitudes about marriage and having children out-of-wedlock.
Twenty-three per cent women said marriage was their first time living with a
partner. Researchers based their findings on more than 12,000 interviews of
women aged 15-44, between 2006 and 2010.
With the stage set for International Yoga Day this Sunday, yoga asanas were performed mid-air at 35,000 feet above the sea-level, arguably the first time ever! The asanas called Upayoga or useful yoga were performed as a trial-run aboard the Delhi-Guwahati and Guwahati-Delhi flights of budget airline SpiceJet with over 180 passengers and crew. The Gurgaon-based carrier has teamed up with Isha Foundation of Sadhguru to conduct mid-air yoga sessions on its select Boeing flights on Sunday, which is being observed as International Yoga Day. Talking about the yogic postures demonstrated, Gita, a teacher with the Isha Foundation said the session was designed to reduce stress for passengers who travel long hours. "These are safe, simple postures which can be done by anyone, and can be practiced anytime and anywhere. They help in relieving stress accumulated in the upper neck and spine region," Gita told PTI. The passengers on board, who had no clue about the onboard yoga demonstr...
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