FRHD 1020 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 Cohabitation and Marriage

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Increased opportunities to form intimate relationships outside kinship structure. Historically: marriage would be next step, but not always in the 21st century. Rise of nonmarital cohabitation has been one of the most important trends in the study of the life course of family. A person who is not your spouse, with whom you are living in a conjugal relationship, and at least one of the following situation applies. Living with you in a conjugal relationship, and this current relationship has lasted at least 12 continuous months. Parent of your child by birth or adoption. Has custody and control of your child and your child is wholly dependent on that person for support. Gain privilege and status over other forms of union formation. Change in establishment of unions is linked with other social changes. Marriage has historically been an institution formed out of economic necessity: