Word: cohabiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beauty of Adams House in its past glory was that it confronted people's inhibitions and prejudices and challenged their hypocrisy. It allowed diversity of opinion and lifestyle to cohabit as opposed to outlawing every form of expression that failed to be sanctioned by the majority. It advocated toleration of differences of opinion as opposed to homogenization of thought...
Most surprising, perhaps, for many Gen-Xers, who think living together is a prudent rehearsal for "I do," the report contends that cohabitation reduces the likelihood of later wedded bliss. It quotes a 1992 study of 3,300 adults showing that those who had lived with a partner were 46% more likely to divorce than those who had not. "The longer you cohabit, the more tolerant you are of divorce," says David Popenoe, the sociologist who co-wrote the study. "You're used to living in a low-commitment relationship, and it's hard to shift that kind of mental...
...Does cohabitation really make divorce more likely? Or are the people who cohabit simply the same sort of people who tend to divorce? A devoutly Roman Catholic couple, for example, might skip living together and go straight into a long-running marriage, while a couple who at the outset are doubtful of marriage might live together first before trying a marriage that fails. "It is inappropriate and simplistic to treat cohabitation as the major factor affecting divorce," says Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "The trend in divorce stretches back over the last hundred years, so clearly...
...President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy took 39.5%, which France's voting system was expected to translate into a huge majority of about 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats in this past Sunday's runoff. That will leave Socialist President Francois Mitterrand to "cohabit" with a hostile rightist majority until his term ends in 1995. His probable choice as Prime Minister: R.P.R. Deputy and former Finance Minister Edouard Balladur...
...rare opportunity to merge the politics of left and right into a new "politics of the center." In some issues there may be room for compromise. But it seems unlikely that at a time when both parties are struggling to define themselves anew, either will seek to cohabit with the other...