Does marriage education work?
Other education efforts to make sure couples succeed are varied, ranging from premarital
classes taken by devout Catholics to endeavors by legislatures in some states that
involve couples expressing commitment to the marriage by agreeing to stricter terms
should they decide to seek divorce, said Nicholas Wolfinger, a professor of family
and consumer studies and adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Utah.
While “almost no one” opts for those commitments, he added, couples who do have a
lower divorce rate, though research suggests those so-called “covenant marriages”
typically attract people who are not inclined to divorce anyway, particularly religious
couples.