(From The USA Today -- By Sharon Jayson)
Men and women who moved in together used to raise eyebrows. Living together out of wedlock, once considered "shacking up" or "living in sin," has lost its stigma as cohabitation has become mainstream.
What a difference a few decades makes. More than two-thirds of married couples in the USA now say they lived together before marriage. And the number of unmarried, opposite-sex households overall is rising dramatically -- even in seven states where laws against intimate relations between unmarried partners are still on the books.
USA TODAY's SHARON JAYSON examines how the rapid growth of cohabitation is reshaping the landscape of family and social life in the USA.
Cohabitation Is Replacing Dating
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