TY - BOOK ID - 77873945 TI - Marriage and cohabitation AU - Thornton, Arland. AU - Axinn, William G. AU - Xie, Yu PY - 2007 SN - 1281966665 9786611966669 0226798682 9780226798684 9781281966667 9780226798660 0226798666 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Marriage KW - Unmarried couples KW - Young adults KW - Young people KW - Young persons KW - Adulthood KW - Youth KW - Cohabitation KW - Domestic partners KW - Living together KW - Couples KW - Common law marriage KW - Free love KW - Attitudes. KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - married life, cohabitating, sociology, sociologist, academic, scholarly, research, college, university, textbook, contemporary, modern, 20th century, present day, old age, middle aged, union, western, international, global, adolescence, youth, commitment, long term, relationships, interpersonal, united states, usa, america, american, controversial, family, education, finance, wealth, income, patterns, history, historical, demographics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77873945 AB - In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace and those who do get married are doing so at an older age. So why do people marry when they do? And why do some couples choose to cohabit? A team of expert family sociologists examines these timely questions in Marriage and Cohabitation, the result of their research over the last decade on the issue of union formation. Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society wh ER -