cohabitation

• new right view 


  -opposes

  -threatens sanctity of marriage

  -weakens commitment & loyalty

  -leads to moral decline & social problems
• feminism view 


  -agree

  -give women free will

  -expresses individualistic values
• the new right view

  -Bensons study

  -during child's first 3 years of life

  -parents 2.33x more likely to break up if cohabit than marry
• Smart

  -cohabitation more likely among poorer classes

  -poverty encourages cohabitation not marriage
• extended family


  -families consisting of 3 generations
• definition


  when an unmarried couple in a romantic relationship are living together
• why is cohabitation gaining popularity?

  -decline in stigma > in 1989 44% believed premarital sex isn't wrong

  in 2012 65% took this view

  -changing positions of women > less need for financial security of marriage

  -secularisation > people with no religion more likely to cohabit than religious

  -economically pragmatic > marriage is expensive
• Coast


  75% of cohabiting couples expect to marry
• Bejin


  -some couples see it as a permanent alternative to marriage