Girls love the idea of a wedding typically . Guys love it for the tax benefits . When they get married they think it ' ll last because it seems like a great idea . You spend more time around each other and you realize it ' s not . Some live together , but at a young age people are living at home or in some other inconvenient situations so they aren ' t in a position to live together prior . It ' s also a christian heavy country so religious beliefs keep people from living together before marriage . As for the old friend of mine , they did . Knocked the girl up and she moved in with him at his parents house at 16 . For anticipation reasons , they got married and the mom payed for an apartment for them to live in . They got evicted for basically being shitty tenants and moved back to his parents . Divorced pretty much right after the child was born as it puts added stress on the relationship and they obviously weren ' t ready at 16 considering none of them even had jobs or responsible enough for a kid . Honestly this generation had just plain been bad when it comes to pregnancy and divorce rates . Half of the people I knew in school have had children andor been marrieddivorced .