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Living Together Apart

By: Jacquelyn J. Benson
In: The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia
Edited by: Marilyn J. Coleman & Lawrence H. Ganong
Subject:American Studies, Family Studies (general)
Keywords:children; cohabitation; family income; financial hardships; income; low income; parent-child bonding

In recent decades demographic shifts related to family formation—declining marriage rates, increasing cohabitation, and increasing numbers of nonmarital births—have led many family scholars to extend a greater research focus on the unconventionality of family life. ...

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  Benson, J. (2014). Living together apart. In M. J. Coleman, & L. H. Ganong (Eds.), The social history of the American family: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. 818-819). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452286143.n335
  
  Benson, Jacquelyn J. "Living Together Apart." In The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia, edited by Coleman, Marilyn J., and Lawrence H. Ganong, 818-19. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452286143.n335.
  
  Benson, J. 2014. Living Together Apart. In: Marilyn J. Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong Editors, 2014. The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 818-819 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452286143.n335> [Accessed 6 May 2021].
  
  Benson, Jacquelyn J. "Living Together Apart." The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Marilyn J. Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014, pp. 818-19. SAGE Knowledge. 6 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452286143.n335.
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