According to Alan Booth and Ann C Crouter in “Just Living Together”, 2002, the authors state the main idea that “Although cohabitation is often regarded as a recent development, it includes a range of living arrangements some of which are novel whereas others are more traditional”(2002, p. 3). Then they observe that there were two types of cohabitation in the 19th century: one was “Marriage of conscience”, which means that only church marriages were permitted at that time and the second one was “Stockholm marriages” which means the poor people those who could not afford to marry. For the new form of cohabitation, the authors note that this form of cohabitation started in the 1970s and it has rapidly increased during the 1980s and 1990s, by the way of young people are now living together as an alternative to marriage.
Alan Booth and Ann C Courter say in the book “At any given time, cohabitation may have different meanings for the men and women involved” (2002, p.5). They examine that cohabitation has eclipsed marriage in many countries. They also explain that the ratio of marriage is directly higher compare with those who did not experience their parental divorce during childhood and those who did.
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Almost all the developed countries have the same annoyance, the low birthrate. Japan has also has the same one. That of Japan was, 1.29 per couple, I think. The population is rapidly decreasing in number. There are some reasons. The family system and social system has changed and a lot of famlies are only-one-person family, and most of the rest are nuclear familiy. The change arose from the development of economy and affluent lives. People are independent when they are rich enough to lead their lives on their own. At the same time, it is getting difficult to take care of children. People spend a lot of money on thier house, their leisure, education, etc. They have only a few people to take care of their children but themselves. In old days grandparents took care of their grandchildren but grandparents are still young even when they are over 60years old and have retired their job. They enjoy their second life and have a little time to take care of their grandchildren. The community has lost the function to take care of children in it. In the age like that, cohabitation can be a better way to live, have children and raise them.
There may be various reasons for people to choose cohabitation instead of marriage. In some countries, having a family without marriage would be difficult, I suppose. To find the meanings of cohabitation and marriage seems interesting.
Yumiko
I know that cohabitation is more and more prevalent in contemporary society, but I never knew that cohabitation had so long a history.
Some of my friends told me that they didn't want to get married, because they thought that marriage life is lack of freedom and fun.
I believe there are more reasons why more and more people are choosing not to get married, but just live together instead.
I'm really interested in your topic, and can't wait to know more from you!!
Hello Inez,
I want to let you know that your topic is very interesting. With regard to your second summary I think you were very prepared about it. It would be very interesting to know more about your topic because all we have differnt ways to see the world around us about to be married or not. Go ahead.
Angel
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