Cohabitation

Nowadays, cohabitation is a common pattern among people around the world, as well as sex or birth outside of marriage. Such patterns became usual things in the relationships.

The New Right see the decline of the traditional nuclear family and the growth of family diversity as negative reaction in modern society. From the New Right perspective, these changes are the cause of many social problems in the UK today. These problems are gays or lesbians families, divorces, single-parent families, cohabitation in general. Shocking figures reveal that births outside marriage are at their highest level in two centuries and nearly half of children can expect their parents to separate by the time they turn 16.

Moreover, the data which was given by the National Statistic mentioned that nine out of ten couples now live together before or instead of tying the knot. Before the Second World War, it was fewer than one in 30. From a situation 30 years ago where it was often considered shameful to have a child outside of wedlock, nowadays it has become the norm. Some 46 per cent of children are born to unmarried mothers, according to research by the Centre for Social Justice. The think-tank said a child growing up in a one-parent family is 75 per cent more likely to fail at school, 70 per cent more likely to become a drug addict, 50 per cent more likely to have an alcohol problem and 35 per cent more likely to be unemployed as an adult.

Some 48 per cent of children are likely to see their family break up before they are 16. Ten years ago, it was 40 per cent.

Mike Featherstone (1991) proposed that in modern day living, individuals have a great deal more choice and freedom over how to live their lives. The choice, that was given to the today's people can be the contraceptive pills as an example. Such thing helped to make a decrease in the nuclear families. It not only helps to protect the pregnancy it «helps» to have a bad reaction soon, which is a sterility. A great deal of...