Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships

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.

• Foreword; Sampson Lee Blair and Yongjun ZhangChapter 1. Individual and Relationship Determinants of Sexual Non-Exclusivity: Comparing Cohabiting, Dating, and Married Emerging Adults; Angela M. Kaufman-Parks, Monica A. Longmore, Wendy D. Manning, and Peggy C. GiordanoChapter 2. Family Life Course Trajectories and Union Dissolution in Middle and Later Life; Zhuolin (Grace) Li and Margaret J. PenningChapter 3. All is Not Fair in Love and Housework: Perceptions of Labor Fairness and Relationship Attitudes in Cohabitating and Married Couples; Cassie MeadChapter 4. Protective Function of Cohabitation against Economic Worries; Daniel Baron and Ingmar RappChapter 5. Parental Role Construction among LGBTQ Parents in the Post-Equality Era; Allison Jendry JamesChapter 6. Partnered, Cohabiting, or Married: Childbearing and Mothers’ Mid-Life Health in the US, UK, and Norway; Sharon Sassler, Fenaba Rena Addo, Brienna Perelli-Harris, Trude Lappegård, and Stefanie HoherzChapter 7. Convergence or Divergence? The Unfolding of Cohabitation in France, Germany, Italy, and Norway; Okka Zimmermann and Dirk KonietzkaChapter 8. Intimate Partner Violence in Cohabiting Relationships: Young Women’s Voices from Rural Vhembe District, South Africa; Matamela Makongoza, Peace Kiguwa, and Simangele MayiselaChapter 9. Marriage by Cohabitation (Common Law Marriage) in Seychelles: Emerging Issues; Jamil Ddamulira MujuziChapter 10. Defining Cohabitation in the Ghanaian Context: Some Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Rosemary Obeng-HinnehChapter 11. Cohabitation in the Southern Cone: Recent Evolution, Associated Factors and Convergence; Carla Arévalo and Jorge A. Paz

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