eprintid: 4392 rev_number: 4 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/43/92 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:05:36 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:36:05 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:05:36 type: book metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 1 creators_name: Prinz, C. creators_id: 1309 title: Cohabiting, Married, or Single: Portraying, Analyzing and Modeling New Living Arrangements in the Changing Societies of Europe ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_pop divisions: prog_pop abstract: 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. date: 1995-11 date_type: published publisher: Avebury iiasapubid: XB-95-002 iiasa_bibref: Avebury, Aldershot, UK (1995) iiasa_bibnotes: [ISBN 1859721877] creators_browse_id: 1520 full_text_status: none place_of_pub: Aldershot pages: 220 refereed: TRUE isbn: 1859721877 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Prinz, C. (1995). Cohabiting, Married, or Single: Portraying, Analyzing and Modeling New Living Arrangements in the Changing Societies of Europe. Aldershot: Avebury. ISBN 1859721877