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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

As Cohabitation Gains Favor, Shotgun Weddings Fade

No longer taboo, living together has become a more common arrangement for America's couples who become pregnant while dating.

Soon-to-be-released government figures show a major cultural shift since the days of "shotgun weddings" aimed at avoiding family embarrassment. With marriage on the decline, the shift is helping redefine the traditional notion of family.

"The emergence of cohabitation as an acceptable context for childbearing has changed the family-formation landscape," said Christina Gibson-Davis, a sociology professor at Duke University. "Individuals still value the idea of a two-parent family but no longer consider it necessary for the parents to be married."
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2014 at 2:48 PM

    What year was this written? 1965?

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2014 at 3:17 PM

    If you break it down my color and socioeconomic status, I am sure you would get a whole different picture

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  3. Salisbury University Male studying " There is no difference in SEXES" at Salisbury UniversityJanuary 7, 2014 at 4:37 PM

    I love MEN but they will not show that...

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2014 at 7:50 PM

    437's just afraid of women. 317, That has nothing to do with anything. Whether you think you can, or you can't, you are right.

    And, 248, does it matter? True today as it was a hundred years ago.

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