Cohabitation

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To live together in an emotional/sexual relationship without being married
Joy Lewry
Mind Map by Joy Lewry, updated more than 1 year ago
Joy Lewry
Created by Joy Lewry over 7 years ago
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Cohabitation
  1. Emancipation of women
    1. Wilkinson 1994
      1. Women in the 'genderquake', no longer prioritise marriage and children as they may have done in the past.
    2. Changing social attitudes
      1. British Social Attitudes Survey 1989 - 2012
        1. 1 of 1 71% in 1989 believed that those who want children ought to be married, in 2012 this was just 42%
      2. Secularisation
        1. Gibson
          1. UK has gone through a period of secularisation where the churches values are no longer prioritised.
          2. Berthoud
            1. Acceptance of sex before marriage.
          3. Key information
            1. 5.9M in 2012, twice that of 1996
              1. Hanna and Grainger
                1. See it as a "socially legitimate family environment for child bearing"
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