The Danger of Cohabitation

 

Everyone of us knows that family structure is changing and this article presents those dangerous risks to young adults and to children and to the society that is dependent upon stable, loving marriages and families.

The deep secret about cohabitation is that people have believed that living together would increase their odds of doing well in marriage but it is not true.this is ignorance.In recent times, large increases in divorce and children born out of wed luck have dramatically altered the social landscape but a related social change has received little attention. That's the extraordinary rise in cohabitation, in which an unmarried man and woman share a household as sexual partners.

Family instability is rising because more couples are having children in cohabiting unions, which are very unstable and many people are not seeing the end result. 

Some investigation were carried out and the revelations was amazing.A 2011 report indicated that children in cohabiting households are more likely to suffer from a range of emotional and social problems—drug use, depression, and dropping out of high school—compared to children in intact, married families. In the U.S, cohabitation, poses the biggest challenge to marriage. In 1960: 500,000 and in 2010: 7,529,000 couples cohabitate. More than 60% of marriages are now preceded by cohabitation (Wilcox et al. 2011).Today, there are so many unmarried women between 25 and 39 living with a male partnerand the arrogance behind this trend is much.

 Why would a guy and a lady live together when they are not tied by official papers or religious vows? Though it has become a norm in the society and also a major reason for several break-up. We shouldn't be quick to mention LOVE, as love itself comes with regrets when order is not observed.
What are the dangers of cohabitation?  



1. Your self worth is reduced.
2. When you are married is different from Being engaged

3. It's a shame to culture and tradition AS africans.

4. Relationships are unstable in cohabitation. One-sixth of cohabiting couples stay together for only three years; one in ten survives five or more years.

5.Cohabiting women often end up with the responsibilities of marriage—particularly when it comes to caring for children—without the legal protection. Research has also found that cohabiting women contribute more than 70 percent of the relationship's income.

6.Cohabitation brings a greater risk of sexually transmitted diseases, because cohabiting men are four times more likely to be unfaithful than husbands.

7. Those who suffer most from cohabitation are the children. The poverty rate among children of cohabiting couples is fivefold greater than the rate among children in married-couple households. Children ages 12–17 with cohabiting parents are six times more likely to exhibit emotional and behavioral problems and 122 percent more likely to be expelled from school.