The purpose of this study was to examine cohabitation and to find if opinions about cohabitation as an acceptable alternative to marriage varied with sex and other demographic variables. The study consisted of 2136 participants (930 male, 1206 female), which were provided to the researcher from GSS. The three demographic variables being studied in the research report are Age, Religious Preference and Marital Status. In order to test the level of significance for each variable the researcher conducted chi square analysis on each variable. The first hypothesis tested was that males with religious preference and females without religious preference will support cohabitation, while males without religious preference and females with religious reference will oppose cohabitation. The next hypothesis is that males and females who have been married, divorced or separate will be in against cohabitation and male sand females who have never been married will support it. The final hypothesis is that males older than thirty-five and females younger than thirty-five will support cohabitation, while males younger than thirty-five and females older than thirty-five will be opposed. Most of the data analyzed in this study is an agreement with previous research conducted. The next step in this research would be to include more demographic variables such as ethnicity and number of children.
             Cohabitation as an Acceptable Alternative to Marriage for Men and Women and Marital Status, Age and Religious Preference: An Analysis of Survey Data Using GSS
             The United States has seen a significant decline in both marriage and remarriage rates. Does this mean that there is large amount of the population that wish to live alone and be single? Now many couples who do not wish to marry or remarry have found that cohabitation works best for them. Cohabitation is often seen as a starting point for people headed toward marriage, but can also be an ultimate arrangemen...