The debate on marriage versus cohabitation has always been a controversial topic. However, in recent years this issue has been exceedingly reported on by the media because cohabitation, from traditional viewpoint, is a crisis that leads to immorality. Cohabitation, contrary to marriage, does not provide a permanent, healthy, and stable environment for all directly and indirectly involved within this type of relationship. I believe that marriage provides a better relationship than cohabitation. And aside from my humble experiences, statistics also proves my claim. Marriage is the ultimate form of commitment that symbolizes absolute permanence. However, in cohabitation couples and individuals develop this “quasi-commitment” causing partners
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More often than not couples (seventy-five percent) who have a child while they are cohabitating will separate during the child’s lifetime. Usually it occurs during the child’s developmental stages, and therefore can cause the child to experience emotional distress, and developmental complications. Studies show two-thirds of children who are born to parents that are cohabitating will end up with stepfamilies, again causing more stress on the child. These children who have parents that are separated have already experienced one failed marriage, and the thought of a parent remarrying causes the fear of experiencing yet another failed marriage. Marriage though, brings a child that sense of security knowing their parents have mad the ultimate commitment through bounding themselves to each other. This security allows for a child to succeed in their vulnerable developmental years unlike children with cohabitating parents. One can argue that divorce is just as devastating and nearly seventy percent of all Americans have been impacted by it, some being children of divorced parents, leading to the thought that cohabitation is better, and less risky. However, many of these divorces do not affect children, studies show only about a third of children born to married couples experience their parents’ divorce. While seventy-five percent of children who have cohabitating parents suffer the effects of their parents’
More often than not couples (seventy-five percent) who have a child while they are cohabitating will separate during the child’s lifetime. Usually it occurs during the child’s developmental stages, and therefore can cause the child to experience emotional distress, and developmental complications. Studies show two-thirds of children who are born to parents that are cohabitating will end up with stepfamilies, again causing more stress on the child. These children who have parents that are separated have already experienced one failed marriage, and the thought of a parent remarrying causes the fear of experiencing yet another failed marriage. Marriage though, brings a child that sense of security knowing their parents have mad the ultimate commitment through bounding themselves to each other. This security allows for a child to succeed in their vulnerable developmental years unlike children with cohabitating parents. One can argue that divorce is just as devastating and nearly seventy percent of all Americans have been impacted by it, some being children of divorced parents, leading to the thought that cohabitation is better, and less risky. However, many of these divorces do not affect children, studies show only about a third of children born to married couples experience their parents’ divorce. While seventy-five percent of children who have cohabitating parents suffer the effects of their parents’