Cohabitation: More Harm Than Good

"If the family trends of recent decades are extended into the future, the result will not only be a growing uncertainty within marriage, but the gradual elimination of marriage in favor of casual liaisons, oriented to adult expressiveness and self-fulfillment. The problem with this scenario is that children will be harmed, adults probably no happier, and the social order could collapse." (David Popenoe in Promises to Keep) Cohabitation by definition is two unmarried people of …

…religions respectfully appreciate married couples rather than cohabiting ones. They-culture, custom, society and religion even assume cohabitators as not good people, if I would not say bad ones. The public opinion speaks scornfully of them and even looks down on them. In some countries, particular Asian countries, cohabitators are considered as ruled and they will have to face with many difficulties either in workplace or in the place where they live not alone the community.