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Book SynopsisIn societies around the globe, couples are increasingly opting to live together without going through the formal and legal complications of marriage. Given the tremendous diversity in cohabiting couples, as well as the increasing prominence of this form of intimate relationships, Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships provides a more thorough comprehension of the structures, effects, and intimate practice of cohabitation around the world.
As a richly edited collection, the chapters delve into a wide array of topics including transitions into cohabitation, parenting and parental roles, division of domestic labor among cohabitors, sharing of economic resources, elderly cohabitors, legal complications of cohabitation, intimate partner violence, interconnections between cohabitation and marriage, sex and sexuality, assortative mating among cohabiting partners, premarital cohabitation and its consequences, relationship dissolution, gender ideologies, changing patterns of cohabitation, cohabitation and remarriage, and parental cohabitation and child development, among others. This is compelling reading for scholars of family research for better comprehending the structural, affectional, and other characteristics of cohabitation around the world.
Table of ContentsForeword; Sampson Lee Blair and Yongjun Zhang
Chapter 1. Individual and Relationship Determinants of Sexual Non-Exclusivity: Comparing Cohabiting, Dating, and Married Emerging Adults; Angela M. Kaufman-Parks, Monica A. Longmore, Wendy D. Manning, and Peggy C. Giordano
Chapter 2. Family Life Course Trajectories and Union Dissolution in Middle and Later Life; Zhuolin (Grace) Li and Margaret J. Penning
Chapter 3. All is Not Fair in Love and Housework: Perceptions of Labor Fairness and Relationship Attitudes in Cohabitating and Married Couples; Cassie Mead
Chapter 4. Protective Function of Cohabitation against Economic Worries; Daniel Baron and Ingmar Rapp
Chapter 5. Parental Role Construction among LGBTQ Parents in the Post-Equality Era; Allison Jendry James
Chapter 6. Partnered, Cohabiting, or Married: Childbearing and Mothers’ Mid-Life Health in the US, UK, and Norway; Sharon Sassler, Fenaba Rena Addo, Brienna Perelli-Harris, Trude Lappegård, and Stefanie Hoherz
Chapter 7. Convergence or Divergence? The Unfolding of Cohabitation in France, Germany, Italy, and Norway; Okka Zimmermann and Dirk Konietzka
Chapter 8. Intimate Partner Violence in Cohabiting Relationships: Young Women’s Voices from Rural Vhembe District, South Africa; Matamela Makongoza, Peace Kiguwa, and Simangele Mayisela
Chapter 9. Marriage by Cohabitation (Common Law Marriage) in Seychelles: Emerging Issues; Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi
Chapter 10. Defining Cohabitation in the Ghanaian Context: Some Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Rosemary Obeng-Hinneh
Chapter 11. Cohabitation in the Southern Cone: Recent Evolution, Associated Factors and Convergence; Carla Arévalo and Jorge A. Paz
