Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution
"At a time when forty percent of children are born to unmarried couples, this book gives desperately needed historical perspective to the most profound, consequential development in private life of the past half century: the explosive growth of cohabitation outside of wedlock. Elizabeth Pleck not only explains how a phenomenon that sixty years ago was derided as 'living in sin' became the norm, she comments forcefully and utterly convincingly about how law and public policy have failed to take account of a fundamental shift in American life." (Steven Mintz, Columbia University)"