HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Posslq, Premarital Sex
8 Apr 2016
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Living together is not a practice that emerged just over the past 40-45 years. In the past, it was less visible and less frequent: largely confined to the poor. Once regulated by the state, and some of these laws remain on the books. The woman"s boss and representative of n. c. state attorney general both argued that the woman has no standing to sue them because they were merely enforcing a 200-year-old state law that prohibits unmarried couples from living together. The rarely enforced cohabitation law carries a fine up to ,000 and as. Rise of cohabitation much as 60 days in jail. Rising cohabitation rates in the 20th c. (along with increasing premarital sexual activity and rising divorce rates) show that sexuality and reproduction became increasingly decoupled from marriage. Late 60s: students in activist communities on college campuses experiment with nontraditional family forms such as cohabitation. 1970s: diffusion of practice among college students at large.
