2. I am a LAT
I have quite a few friends who are LATS
you lot at the moment are not LATs but you may
well be one day because in 2008 around 1 in 10
people were found to be LATs
3. • what is a LAT?
• Living Apart Together – someone in a significant
relationship but not married or cohabiting
• Why are we getting LATs now – a new
phenomomen in British society?
• 1 People want to keep their own home - choice
• 2 See the best not the worse of each other which
maintains the relationship
• 3 Can’t afford to live together
• Can we link any of these reasons to a
perspective?
4.
5. The Relationship between Cohabitation and Marriage:
….for some a trial marriage, for others a permanent alternative to marriage
Coast - her research
shows that 75% of
cohabiting couples
expect to marry each
other. This figure is
higher for those with
children
Chester - for
most couples
cohabitation
leads to
marriage
Bejin - cohabitation
for some young
people is a
conscious attempt
to create a more
personal, negotiate
d and equal
relationship than a
normal patriarchal
marriage
Shelton & John –
those women who
cohabit do less
housework than
their married
counteparts -
Macklin - the term cohabitation
covers a diverse range of
partnerships. The relationship
between marriage and
cohabitation is a complex and
variable one
The perspective which best
understands that cohabitation can
have various meanings and mean
different things to different
couples is
____________________________
6. Flip over your sheets – now its your turn to create your own
resource with memory joggers
Same Sex Relationships
7. Latest Development
Legislation to allow same-sex marriage in
England and Wales was passed by the
Parliament of the United Kingdom in July 2013
and is expected to be brought into force by mid-
2014
8. One person households – in bubbles
• Your task is to encapsulate the material on
one person households (p63 of the books) in
no more than 10 bubbles – what you put in
the bubbles is up to you
