Marriage-Lite: The Rise of Cohabitation and Its Consequences - Softcover

Morgan, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903386047 ISBN 13: 9781903386040

Publisher: Civitas/Inst for the Study of, 2000

Synopsis

Far from being a mirror-image of marriage, cohabitation turns out to be something fundamentally different. It is very fragile. Cohabitating relationships are more likely to fracture than marriages entered into at the same time. It is no longer true that people cohabit until children come along and then tie the knot. Cohabitations with children are more likely to fragment than childless ones. Couples who have children and then marry are more likely to divorce than couples who have children within marriage.

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Morgan, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, is a sociologist specialising in criminology and family policy. Her books include Delinquent Fantasies, 1978; Facing Up to Family Income, 1989; Families in Dreamland, 1992; Farewell to the Family?, 1995; Are Families Affordable?, 1996; Who Needs Parents?, 1996; Adoption And The Care of Children, 1998; and Adoption: The Continuing Debate, 1999. She has contributed chapters to Full Circle, Family Portraits, The Loss of Virtue, Tried But Untested, Liberating Women from Modern Feminism, Just a Piece of Paper? and The Fragmenting Family, as well as articles for periodicals and national newspapers. Patricia Morgan is a frequent contributor to television and radio programmes and is presently writing a full-length work on the relationship between capitalism and the family.

Review:

Patricia Morgan is the most penetrating writer on family break-up of our times -- The Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Civitas/Inst for the Study of
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1903386047
• ISBN 13: 9781903386040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118