Cohabitation
So far in this semester in my family relations class we have talked about family trends and the APA brief from the court case of redefining what marriage is (court case making same sex marriage legal). These were both really interesting topics to learn about in class and I hope I can convey similar knowledge to my readers. In class we talked about trends of families. Those trends include birth rates going down, marriage rate going down, divorce is decreasing, non marital births are increasing, age when married has gone up, cohabitation is increasing, employed moms with kids under the age of 6 is increasing, and living alone is increasing. Divorce rate is only going down because people are getting married less, and people are getting married less because couples are choosing cohabiting instead of getting married. Plus if that cohabitating couple wants to get married later on they are 3 times more likely to get a divorce compared to just gettin...