Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships

Foreword; Sampson Lee Blair and Yongjun Zhang

Chapter 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. Giordano

Chapter 2. Family Life Course Trajectories and Union Dissolution in Middle and Later Life; Zhuolin (Grace) Li and Margaret J. Penning

Chapter 3. All is Not Fair in Love and Housework: Perceptions of Labor Fairness and Relationship Attitudes in Cohabitating and Married Couples; Cassie Mead

Chapter 4. Protective Function of Cohabitation against Economic Worries; Daniel Baron and Ingmar Rapp

Chapter 5. Parental Role Construction among LGBTQ Parents in the Post-Equality Era; Allison Jendry James

Chapter 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 Lappegard, and Stefanie Hoherz

Chapter 7. Convergence or Divergence? The Unfolding of Cohabitation in France, Germany, Italy, and Norway; Okka Zimmermann and Dirk Konietzka

Chapter 8. Intimate Partner Violence in Cohabiting Relationships: Young Women's Voices from Rural Vhembe District, South Africa; Matamela Makongoza, Peace Kiguwa, and Simangele Mayisela

Chapter 9. Marriage by Cohabitation (Common Law Marriage) in Seychelles: Emerging Issues; Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

Chapter 10. Defining Cohabitation in the Ghanaian Context: Some Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Rosemary Obeng-Hinneh

Chapter 11. Cohabitation in the Southern Cone: Recent Evolution, Associated Factors and Convergence; Carla Arevalo and Jorge A. Paz