MARRIAGE VS COHABITATION

Marriage versus living together

Marriage versus Living Together

Introduction

When love ends, even those without ring on their fingers run by the court, to divide children, money, property. In this regard, the statistics are clear: the living together is becoming more widespread, so much so that even 60% of couples who get married (Solot & Miller, 2002), have lived together before marriage. At the same time, the number of causes for "separation" is rapidly increasing.

For 48% of the members of the American Bar Association marriage, living together or cohabitation is a boom that ends in court, and 39% noted a sharp increase in the number of “living together agreements” (ibid). Nietzsche judged marriage "the most deceitful of sexual intercourse and that is why it has the approval of conscience as well” (McManus & McManus, 2008). If, today he might refine his thinking, should take into account a significant change in social terms. The number of marriages gradually increases and decreases but that of “cohabitation”. Thus, the German philosopher could venture the hypothesis that people are not misleading, or that marriage and living together are two sides of the same coin. The relationships, in short, no longer require legitimacy.

Discussion

Sexual freedom has become an individual right that young people try to win as soon as possible. Once, in the encounter between two people, started from the communication of feelings, plans, experience, and arrive to discuss the marriage. The latter, especially the Catholic influence endured, had the function of legitimizing, as part of the conjugal couple, the meeting of bodies.

Now, that sex has become the first and almost indispensable form of knowledge between people the marriage has lost its matrix formalization. In the '60s, the reformulation of the concept of the family would have been unthinkable (Mattison, 2008), especially because the "coexistence" was ...