Editing Cohabitation (section)

===Abuse and infidelity===

University of Chicago sociologist [[Linda Waite]]<ref name="chronicle.uchicago.edu">{{cite journal |vauthors=Harms W |year=2000 |title=The University of Chicago Chronicle |url=http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/000302/cohabit.shtml |journal=Research Looks at Cohabitation's Negative Effects |volume=19 |issue=11}}</ref> found that "16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their partners became physical during the past year, while only 5 percent of married women had similar experiences."  Most cohabiting couples have a faithful relationship, but Waite's surveys also demonstrated that 20% of cohabiting women reported having secondary sex partners, compared to only 4% of married women.<ref name="pmid1393717">{{cite journal| vauthors=Margolin L| title=Child abuse by mothers' boyfriends: why the overrepresentation?| journal=Child Abuse Negl| year=1992| volume=16| issue=4| pages=541–551| doi=10.1016/0145-2134(92)90070-8| pmid=1393717}}</ref>

According to an article by Judith Treas and Deirdre Giesen, cohabiting couples are twice as likely to experience infidelity within the relationship than married couples.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Judith Treas |author2=Deirdre Giesen|title=Sexual Infidelity Among Married and Cohabiting Americans|journal=Journal of Marriage and Family|date=February 2000|volume=62|issue=1|pages=48–60 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00048.x}}<!--|access-date=18 April 2012--></ref>