However,
* only 22 percent of respondents agreed that divorce is a sin,
* 49 percent said it is OK for couples to live together without intending to get married, and
* 40 percent agreed that it is "a good idea for a couple who intend to get married to live together first."
A large majority of respondents remain opposed to marriage and adoption rights for same-sex couples.
"There's a very strong—some might even say romanticized—vision of what family life should look like," Greenberg told reporters. "Yet, there is a very strong realization of what family life actually looks like."
For instance,
* 52 percent of respondents said that divorce is "usually the best solution when a couple can't seem to work out their marriage problems." That figure included
* 38 percent of those in "traditional marriages," defined as a heterosexual couple in their first marriage with children at home.
The survey found that less than
* 20 percent of respondents were never-divorced married couples with children at home. Another
* 27 percent were married and never divorced but with no children living at home.