PSYC 3630 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Artificial Insemination, Intimate Partner Violence, Consumerism
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Living alone, cohabiting, same-sex unions and other intimate relationships. Birth control pills, improved contraception has contributed to the decision to delay or forego marriage and with effective contraception, sexual relationships outside marriage and without great risk of unwanted pregnancy became possible. As more young adults choose to claim independence simply by moving, marriage has lost its monopoly as the way to claim adulthood. Cohabitation is emerging as a socially accepted alternative to marriage. Living alone: the number of one-person households has increased dramatically over past decades individuals living alone now make up over 28% of u. s. households vs. 8% in 1940. Living alone together: an emerging lifestyle choice is living alone together here a couple is engaged in a long- term relationship, but each partner also maintains a separate dwelling. Group or communal living roommate arrangements: communes that is, situations or places characterized by group living, have existed in.
