Does The Rising Rate Of Chabitation Mean That We Are Witnessing An End Of Marriage?
DOES THE RISING RATE OF COHABITATION MEAN THAT WE ARE WITNESSING AN END OF MARRIAGE? SOCIAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPARY SOCIETY SOCI102 In today’s society cohabitation is an increasingly popular trend amongst couples. Trost’s 1975 study hypothesized that cohabitation would decrease marriage rates, with Sweden and Denmark providing empirical support for his hypothesis. We now see that this is indeed the case in both America and the United Kingdom. It is important to understand the preference towards sharing a household, without legal documentation, to review the future of marriage rates and whether society will witness a decline in marriage to a point where married couples are rare. There is ambiguity in the meaning of cohabitation. Sociologists each have their own definition of cohabitation in relation to the partnership between the couple. For example, Arafat and Yorburg (1973) defined cohabitation as, living together with a member of the opposite sex’, whereas…… Join Now or Login to vie
