... only being a piece of paper as Andre Bejin (1985) explains, that many young people see cohabitation as an alternative to marriage as it's more personalized compared to the conventional patriarchal family. Shelton and John (1993) noticed that women in cohabiting relationships don't have to do as much housework as women in a marriage this could be because cohabiting couples are able to ... ...

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