This document discusses cohabitation. It defines cohabitation as when an unmarried couple lives together. The facts section notes that young, unemployed, and less educated people are more likely to cohabit according to studies. There are different types of cohabitation such as for convenience, testing the relationship, or emancipation. Some supporting ideas are that it allows sharing costs without commitment, avoids divorce costs, and tests the relationship. However, some opposing ideas are that cohabitation is linked to higher rates of being single or divorced and disadvantages like receiving less consideration.

1. Cohabitation
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2. Contents
Definition of “cohabitation”
The facts of cohabitation
-Who cohabits?
-Types and reasons
Some ideas about cohabitation
• Supporting ideas
• Opposing ideas

3. Definition
What is “cohabitation”
meaning?
Cohabitation means that a couple
lives together before marriage

4. The facts
Who cohabits?

Young people (mostly
under 35)

Unemployed people

Less educated people
(according to Field 2004)

5. The facts
Types of cohabitation
Convenience
Testing
-Who?
-Who?
People want
to be free
from family
People want to
have sexualrela without
security
People intend
to marry
-Purpose?
-Purpose:
Prove
themselve
and gain
indepence
Someone to
care home (for
man) and
finance (for
women)
The trial
marriage
before having
the real one
Linus blanket
Emancipation
-Who?
-Who?
Insecure or
dependent
people
-Purpose?
finding
someone to
rely on
-Purpose?

6. What do people think
about cohabitation
Agree
Disagree

7. Some ideas about cohabitation
 Supporting

ideas
A chance to share the rising costs of
daily living without the commitment of
marriage

Avoiding the high costs and
complications that go with a divorce.

A mean of testing the relationship
before marrying

8. Some ideas about cohabitation
Opposing ideas

Having higher rate of being single or divorcing

Suffering from a lot of disadvantages (especially
women)

Receiving less consideration

9. References
Marriage and Family 90/91
Marriages and Families – Quest for
intimacy
Marriages and Families –
Changes,choices and constraints