Compare the outcomes of cohabitation between older adults and younger adults.
What will be an ideal response?
Cohabitation is more consistently associated with positive outcomes in older adulthood as compared with younger adulthood. Older adult cohabiters tend to report higher-quality relationships, perceiving more fairness, more time spent alone with their partner, fewer disagreements, a lower likelihood of heated arguments than their younger peers. Compared with younger couples, older adults who cohabit tend to be in relationships of longer duration; are more likely to have experienced the dissolution of a marriage; and tend to report fewer marriage plans, viewing the relationship as an alternative to marriage. Older adults may be less interested in marriage because they are past the age of childbearing. They also may be more interested in protecting the wealth they have accrued over their lifetime than they are in pooling economic resources.
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