Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships

Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships by Sampson Lee Blair Usa)

In societies around the globe, couples are increasingly opting to live together without going through the formal and legal complications of marriage. Given the tremendous diversity in cohabiting couples, as well as the increasing prominence of this form of intimate relationships, Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships provides a more thorough comprehension of the structures, effects, and intimate practice of cohabitation around the world. As a richly edited collection, the chapters delve into a wide array of topics including transitions into cohabitation, parenting and parental roles, division of domestic labor among cohabitors, sharing of economic resources, elderly cohabitors, legal complications of cohabitation, intimate partner violence, interconnections between cohabitation and marriage, sex and sexuality, assortative mating among cohabiting partners, premarital cohabitation and its consequences, relationship dissolution, gender ideologies, changing patterns of cohabitation, cohabitation and remarriage, and parental cohabitation and child development, among others. This is compelling reading for scholars of family research for better comprehending the structural, affectional, and other characteristics of cohabitation around the world.

Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. His research focuses upon parent-child relationships, mate selection, marriage, and fertility.

Yongjun Zhang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Advanced Computational Science, The State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA. His research combines big data with statistical, network, and computational methods to study family, social, and political behaviour.

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ISBN 13	9781804554197
ISBN 10	1804554197
Title	Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships
Author	Sampson Lee Blair Usa)
Series	Contemporary Perspectives In Family Research
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Emerald Publishing Limited
Year published	2023-12-08
Number of pages	344
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