同居的英文介绍

同居，是指两个人出于某种目的而暂时居住在一起，现一般用于异性之间。下面小编为大家整理的同居的英文介绍，希望对大家有用!

同居的英文介绍

Today, cohabitation is a common pattern among people in the Western world. People may live together for a number of reasons. These may include wanting to test compatibility or to establish financial security before marrying. It may also be because they are unable to legally marry, due to reasons such as same-sex; some interracial or interreligious marriages are not legal or permitted. Other reasons include living as a way for polygamists to avoid breaking the law, or as a way to avoid the higher income taxes paid by some two-income married couples (in the United States), negative effects on pension payments(among older people), or philosophical opposition to the institution of marriage (that is, seeing little difference between the commitment to live together and the commitment to marriage).

Some individuals also may choose cohabitation because they see their relationships as being private and personal matters, and not to be controlled by political, religious or patriarchal institutions.Some couples prefer cohabitation because it does not legally commit them for an extended period, and because it is easier to establish and dissolve without the legal costs often associated with a divorce. In some jurisdictions cohabitation can be viewed legally as common-law marriages, either after the duration of a specified period, or the birth of the couple’s child, or if the couple consider and behave accordingly as husband and wife. (This helps provide the surviving partner a legal basis for inheriting the deceased’s belongings in the event of the death of their cohabiting partner.) In Saskatchewan, Canada, a married person may cohabit with other married or single persons and become the spouses of all of them under the Saskatchewan Family Property Act. Consent of the “subsequent spouse” is not required. Although Canada has a federal criminal code law prohibiting polygamy, which includes anyone who authorizes more than one conjugal union at a time, Saskatchewan judicial authorities that unilaterally authorize multiple conjugal unions have not yet been charged under this federal law.

Negative effects to cohabiting before marriage

Higher risk of divorce(更高离婚率). Cohabiters who do marry are more at risk for subsequent divorce than those who did not cohabit before marriage. In the United Sates the risk of divorce is 50 percent higher for cohabiters than for non-cohabiters. The divorce rate is even higher with previously married cohabiters and serial cohabiters.

Less satisfactory adjustments in marriage(婚姻低满意度). In a study, cohabiters generally report lower satisfaction with marriage after they marry than do non-cohabiters. There are indications that some living-together couples have more problematic, lower-quality relationships with more individual and couple problems those non-cohabiters.