Class Differences in Cohabitation Processes.
Despite the burgeoning cohabitation literature, research has failed to examine social class variation in processes of forming and advancing such unions. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 122 working- and middle-class cohabitors, we examine the duration between dating and moving in together, reas...
| Publicado en: | Family Relations (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 163 - 178 |
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