Zusammenfassung der Ressource
AS Sociology G672 Cohabitation
- When a couple live together without getting married
- 50 years ago 5% of single women cohabited 1990s 70%
- General Household Survey 1979 UK less than 3% CH 2005 12%
- Patricia Morgan - Trend which marriage is going out of fashion
- Increase in number of sexual partners
- Frequency of partner change
- Joan Chandler - cohabitation relatively stable, long term alternative
- Reasons for increase in cohabitation
- Secularisation
- less stigmatised
- British Social Attitudes Survey -Increasing Acceptance outside marriage
- Younger acceptable over Older age
- Continued support for long term hetero relationships
- better contraception