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Cohabitation The increase in cohabitation suggests a change from previous patterns, when cohabitation was usually a trial or temporary phase prior to marriage. Today, increased numbers of couples raise children in stable relationships. In Britain and a number of European countries, there is growing evidence that long-term cohabitation is growing in popularity. This is less the case in countries such as Ireland, Italy and Portugal where marriages continue to be popular. Coleman and Salt (1992) suggest considerable erosion of traditional assumptions and attitudes which could be linked to the declining popularity of marriage in Britain. The traditional marriage assumptions include: * Marriage confers on a woman a secure, settled income and a status and role based on raising children and keeping house; tasks around which most of her life will revolve. * Marriage lasts for the rest of an increasingly long life. * Marriage is the setting for almost all childbearing and sexual cohabitation. Changes...

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