A roof to share, true solidarity, preserved autonomy… It’s not just the students in general. The concept shakes up the times and appeals to lovers or estranged couples as well as singles and the elderly. Alchemy of links that gathers more and more followers.
“I didn’t expect to take part in it,” admits sociologist François de Singley from his home in Oise. This seventy-year-old family and couple specialist can’t believe it. As he updates the seventh edition of his book Sociology of the modern family– an amount that became a reference and was first published in 1993 – he did not imagine experiencing “such a revolution” in the couple, to which the passing 50s and the sexes are among the most attentive; here he is talking. A “silent wave of decohabitation” between partners that experts can’t really quantify, but is real nonetheless.
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Together, but not too much
“We’ve gone from a time when young couples wanted to be together, to live together under the same roof, but not necessarily to get married, or less and less, to this sudden phase where no one is in a rush to move. them.” Which calls into question the definition of “couple” as given (again…
Source: Le Figaro
