Marriage, Cohabitation, and Single parenthood

Marriage is a socially approved sexual relationship between two individuals or it is a formal relationship between man and woman which is typically recognized by law. It is simply a cultural universe. It always involves two opposite sexes but nowadays same sex marriage is permitted in some part of world. As we are moving towards the modernization society, the value and beliefs of marriage are also changing. People do not have same traditional perception about the marriage rather they have different attitudes towards it. The importance of marriage has lost in our society and children are no longer taught about the purity of marriage.

In today’s society, people are afraid of making commitment as marriage is a lifelong commitment. They are no longer bound by trust, loyalty and love which typical marriage requires rather they are more involve in lust. Marriage involves child bearing, rearing, households, families etc. but as women are being more involved in work force they hardly have time to think about these things. Today’s generation are being more workaholic that they have no free time to think about having babies and families. That is why they prefer short term relationship or that kind of relationship which don’t require commitment such as Cohabitation.

Cohabitation is a sexual relationship between two people where two unmarried person live together for long term or short term basic. Some of the cohabitating couples end in marriage and some don’t. It has been only recent that it is being popular among the people. Before few decades ago, this activity was not permitted in the society. The rise of cohabitation is the most prominent factor that has contributed to the significant decline in trend of marriage. In most of the developi...

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... start to think marriage like a contract or investment, if there is gain they would go for it or if not they cohabitate or remain single. Usually woman from low income family are more likely to be single parent compared to high income woman. Unemployment and incarceration has also contributed for the decline in marriageable men and women tend to stay single.

Children are greatly affected by single parenting. It is believed that children who are raised by single mother are less active in school, less participates in social activities, less likely to get better jobs and their overall development is hampered. On the other hand, children raised in two parent household are more focused towards their study, do better in school and college, more likely to get nice jobs and earn high wages.

Although, cohabitation and single parent household has increased to certain extent a