When did it start to become more socially acceptable for unmarried couples to live together?

I remember it being ok in the 90's and now it's almost expected. Does anyone remember around what time it became more popular to co-habitate? Mid eighties?When did it start to become more socially acceptable for unmarried couples to live together?
hmmm good question. I know it's been big in europe for years. Guess it just finally caught on in the U.S. marriage sometimes feels like a trap or people use to do it for reasons besides the fact that they wanted to live the rest of their lives together. Perhaps people just started realizing ... it's cheeper then our upcoming divorce and far more safe. Besides ...';do I realy want to spend the rest of my life with this person?';





Also with the oncome of woman's lib. it really started giving woman a purpose besides their families for better or worse. Men didn't want to trade roles and faught the movement a bit. With woman working and making their own money they just didn't need a man any more. Now people live together because they can save money ie. it's so expensive to live hard to do it alone. Sence every body has their own money and their own careers, they don't have to marry for money. They both bring something to the table and men are becoming less combatent and more lazy letting woman do the working and probably a lot of the cleanning. Hopefully the woman don't take too much crap from the men and every body pulls their equal weight around in the relationship. So why would people get married these days? If your gonna live together and have kids anyways. People will now only get married for A. money because they are losers and users or B. because they really mean more to each other then any body else in the world and want to prove it to the world.When did it start to become more socially acceptable for unmarried couples to live together?
It began in the 60's with the free love revolution. But it became more acceptable in the 70's with womens lib. Now people are just scared to make a real commitment.
The idea started to take off in the 70s. But of course it's been done pretty much forever.
How about during the period when women was burning BRAS, Flower children,hippies house


squatters. early west when a women needed a man to do the plowing,for live in privileges.
yes mid 80's is about right. Remember '; who's the boss';


around that time
probably mid to late eighties
Early in the 60's before the free love movement. Just about the same time the birth control pill hit the market.
Back in the late 60's, there was a movement in this country that promoted free love and open relationships. Some couples lived together then, many more couples lived together in the sexually promiscuous times of the 70's, as well.





the 80's became a socially acceptable and financially practical time for two people to share rooming. This left more spendable income for investments, retirement plans, and heathon spending (cruises, jewelry, drinking, drugs)





What a world we live in....
idk but i wish it would stop. if you don't move in with them they think ur crazy...like ur so ';old fashioned';.
about 25,ooo yrs ago give or take a few thousand yrs, ray in Monterey
somewhere around the eighties
It started with those crazy hippies in the 1960s. This was about the same time the birth control came on the scene. That made a huge difference for couples. It has gotten worse ever since. I am old fashioned, so I have not accepted it yet. However, I try not to be judgmental. Everyone must find their own way.
Probably around the 80's. The divorce rate is really high so people figure if they know the person (100%) they'll feel more comfortable marrying them.





Are you against it?
i would say around the 60's and 70's. If you do a stat study on crime, divorce, abortion, teen preg., drug abuse etc.


now and compare it to the 40's when they still allowed the bible to be taught in our public schools. you will find a dramatic increase in all the above.
the same time that anything we do to blacks is considered racist...but what they dont realize....is being nicer to them cuz there black is still racist...o-o...were being nice because there race...judging color still....last time i checked ... thats still racism...NOT EQUALITY!
It was in the '60's, when so many barriers toppled. Up until the 1960's interracial dating and marriage was not just uncommon, it was illegal in many places. The whole decade


saw a dizzying advance of personal liberty.
More like the late 60s early 70s free love, drugs, and abortions were all part of the 'free' society that the hippies dreamed up, then many people started to separate or divorce.


People don't realize that splitting up after cohabitation is just as traumatic as divorce.


I had one friend that was with a guy for 10 years, he upped and left her with 3 kids, she still had to go through the emotional pain of dividing their stuff, she had to go to the DA to get an order to pay child support and insurance, she had to find a new place to live it was all very traumatic and just as sad for her and the kids.


You can't get around pain and sadness and even if you think you can get around lawyer fees, you also lose a lot of the benefits to being married.
90s.
Dunno but I would never get married to someone without living with them first.
i got married in 1982 it wasnt really acceptable then, all my friends were married so i would guess late eighties/nineties
i have no idea
Interesting question!





I remember as a kid (that was the early 80's) hearing my aunt say that her neighbours were ';shacking up'; and being really shocked. When I graduated (1987), it was still not that common. Just thinking back, I would say the mid to late 1990's.





It is quite a recent phenomen, but now it is so widespread to consider living together the norm instead of the anomaly.