relation: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4392/
title: Cohabiting, Married, or Single: Portraying, Analyzing and Modeling New Living Arrangements in the Changing Societies of Europe
creator: Prinz, C.
description: Demographers have been slow to reassess the value of the traditional concept of marital status. Until the beginning of the 1960s, a person's living  arrangement could be predicted reasonably well by looking at the individual's legal marital status. During the 1980s, the situation altered dramatically. We know that unmarried couples have always existed; however, in the past they were so rare that little importance was attached to this living arrangement. It was also difficult to study the phenomenon because cohabitation was not yet a generally accepted lifestyle. That is no longer the case. Today, in many European countries many couples live together before marriage, and a significant portion of the adult population chooses cohabitation instead of marriage. It is therefore no longer possible not to consider consensual unions when studying marital-status or living arrangement structures.   The book provides an authoritative and up-to-date review and interpretation of the development of the cohabitation phenomenon across Europe.
publisher: Avebury
date: 1995-11
type: Book
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Prinz, C. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/1520.html>  (1995).  Cohabiting, Married, or Single: Portraying, Analyzing and Modeling New Living Arrangements in the Changing Societies of Europe.     Aldershot: Avebury.  ISBN 1859721877