Forms Of Cohabitation Research Articles

The role of cohabitation in remarriage: a replication

Previous research has demonstrated that the effects of postdivorce cohabitation on the quality of intimate relationships are similar to those of premarital cohabitation. Thus, like premarital cohabitation in first marriage, postdivorce cohabitation in general and multi-partnered postdivorce cohabitation in particular delay remarriage and diminish relationship quality (i.e. undermine happiness and stability). However, such findings are based on survey data from the 1980s, such as the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households. Using pooled samples from the National Survey of Family Growth (1995, 2002), the present study determines whether such findings can be replicated with more recent nationally representative data collected from remarried women between the ages of 15 and 44 (n=1915). Multivariate regression analyses reveal two major findings. First, as anticipated, premarital and postdivorce cohabitation, including multi-partnered forms of cohabitation, delay remarriage. Moreover, serial cohabitation also significantly delays remarriage. Second, remarriages preceded by either postdivorce cohabitation or serial cohabitation exhibit a higher likelihood of remarital disruption (i.e. dissolution or separation). Consequently, while premarital and postdivorce cohabitation have become common in the USA, postdivorce and serial cohabitation continue to exert disruptive effects on remarriages among young American women. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

Ségrégation, communauté et mitoyenneté. Les épreuves de la contiguïté à Caracas

Pedro José García Sánchez and Silverio González Tellez Common ownership, segregation and community : the contiguity of inequality put to the test The urban geography of Caracas is largely characterised by the spatial contiguity between rich and poor neighbourhoods. This implies a need for ordinary and institutional management of the different forms of cohabitation and segregation : territorial markers, social norms, indicators of strangerhood and proximity, together with recognition processes. Our study focuses on the process of urbanisation in which living in proximity to serious inequalities puts the concepts of common ownership and the community to the test. Looking at the case of a gated community and the slum that grows up beside it, what processes do the homogenisation of housing (the production of residential space) and of "styles of living" (urban use and practices) have in common ?

Ekologia rodziny w kontekście współczesnego społeczeństwa

The family is a basic and solid part of a social structure, but it is always set in historical and cultural contexts, therefore over the centuries the family has been undergoing constant evolution: the form of the family and its functions change. In post-modern societies family standards are being more frequently abandoned in favour of so called “post-family” family which takes form of cohabitation and alternative ways of living: living alone, mono parentalship and homosexual partnerships.
 Cohabitation means living together without a formal base. It is undertaken in order to ease a life together, facilitate economic functions of the partnership, accommodate lasting sexual relationship and bring up children. Cohabitation has an open structure, all can be discussed and depends on its members’ will. It doesn’t determine the sex or the number of its member, doesn’t require living together or having children, although it is not exclusive.
 The factors that lead to the abandonment of a traditional model of the family are: change of the women’s position in the social structure, equal rights, economic independence, separating sexual activity from reproduction, the impact of women movements and diminished meaning of the purpose of a marriage - reproduction. “Freedom from a child” allows to make a better use of time for self fulfilment. All these factors lead to individualization of life, the process of individualization changes the members of the society into self efficient atoms, individuals who reject social life and its limits and only look after themselves, focus on their own development and destiny though many can’t tackle the situation and lose.
 Ecology of the family, which is understood as the context for human development, comes with help to individuals lost in the era of the individualization of life. A known Werner- Wilson’s concept of ecology of the family includes inner- family relationships, relationships with other families, with a broader socio- cultural environment and natural environment- organic and non organic, in which the long lasting and dynamic process of human development occurs.

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN BRAVE NEW AMERICA

In pagan Rome during the first centuries of the Christian era, marriage was one of several acceptable forms of cohabitation and family life, and was available as a legal status only to free citizen...

Pour tenter de conclure : à la croisée des chemins...

Abstract – The first section of the paper is aimed at elaborating in some more depth the concept of rationality. Both the mainstream and behavioral approaches to market efficiency are grounded in a « substantive» and thus necessarily unique concept of rationality. The heterodox current, on the contrary, adopts a « procedural» view of rationality which opens the door to various forms of cohabitation and competition of multiple « logics of action ». In a second section, it shows how, along the lines already drawn by Keynes in 1936, heterodox economists consider that the basic function of financial markets is providing liquidity, and by no means « genuine» valuation. This double turn-off has heavy implications for both the scope and the implementation of regulatory devices. It is calling for a concept of « reflexive law » that can be exemplified by such a regulatory principle as « comply or explain ».

Marriageways in Mexico and Spain, 1500–1900

En quoi ce que j'appelle les diverses façons de se marier – mariage (en règie), cohabitation, concubinage – diffèrent-elles en Espagne et au Mexique au début de l'époque moderne? Les âges au moment de la formation du couple et les formes de cohabitation different plus grandement qu'on ne l'imaginait. Au début du XVIe siècle, le mode amérindien de formation du couple est la norme chez les indigènes américains: tout le monde se marie, et cela dès l'âge de la puberté. Dans la péninsule ibérique tout type d'union commence au contraire seulement entre 20 et 25 ans. Avec la conquête et la création de la colonie, la formation des couples doit tenir compte, en Nouvelle Espagne, de la race, du privilège et du sexe. Aussi les façons de s'y marier ne ressemblent que fort peu aux usages de la péninsule. Les prêtres catholiques imposent dans les villages indiens le mariage monogamique vers les 15 ou 20 ans et ne tolerent qu'un minimum d'illégitimité. Dans les villes hispaniques les unions ‘naturelles’, la cohabitation et le concubinage sont en plein essor. Vers la fin de la domination espagnole une convergence s'annonce, quoiqu'au Mexique les rapports sexuels prénuptiaux demeurent essentiels pour sceller le pacte nuptial. En 1803, les réformes juridiques donnent plus de pouvoir aux parents des jeunes gens en matière de choix du conjoint. Mais, en même temps, la capacité pour une femme d'obtenir reparation de la part d'un séducteur est fortement compromise. Les troubles politiques lors de l'lndépendance, la détérioration de l'économie et la sécularisation du mariage ébranlent encore davantage la famille mexicaine.