Cohabiting couples are a rapidly growing family form in the world today. However, this family form has not been … accounted for in family business research. In this article, we examine the differences between cohabiting couples and married … impact outcomes for firms owned by cohabiting and married couples. Finally, we discuss how family business scholars can …

marriage among Neithrop couples also cast doubt on the widespread assumption that cohabitation was common among the Victorian …

percent of births outside marriage reveals not only a new acceptability of cohabitation and family formation out of wedlock …Change in marriage and cohabitation began in France thirty years ago. 2.5 million cohabiting couples and more than 40 …, but a new social signification of marriage itself. In this paper, we analyze what appears to have been a "soft" revolution …

As a family form, cohabitation in the U.S. is relatively recent. Research on cohabitation in the social sciences is …, cohabitation rates have increased in the U.S., as has a growing body of research on this family form. This paper summarizes the … than in the past, cohabitation still remains a relatively short-lived family form. Most cohabiting couples marry or …

country and in the developed world. Part I uses recent government data to trace the decline of marriage and the rise of … cohabitation in the United States. Between 2000 and 2010, the population grew by 9.71%, but the husband and wife households only … century data show little correlation between the marriage rate and economic conditions. Because of the Supreme Court …

Declining marriage rates and increasing cohabitation rates in modern Russia have become a trend that many scholars have … higher their probability of starting of the first cohabitation and the lower their risk to have the first marriage. Our … analysis showed that a cohabitation is not yet a complete alternative to marriage, but it has a possibility of becoming it for …

more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …