Regulation For Non-marriage Cohabitation

As a social phenomenon, the non-marriage cohabitation had attracted the attention of the ancient Roman Empire and been regulated ever since. However, because it is not only related to the men's way of life and privacy rights, but also to the social system, the cohabitation between men and women has to be supervised by morality and system. In different historical periods and different countries, the attitude to non-marriage cohabitation is different. Whether civil law or common law countries, the attitude of law to non-marriage cohabitation have gone or is going from prohibitions, restrictions to preserve and protect, from the regulation for only the legal status of children born out of wedlock to the regulation for overall rights and obligations relating to cohabitation. so that the rights and interests of parties in non-marriage cohabitation can be more adequately protected than before.In China, for a long time, because of ethical and legal reasons, the non-marriage cohabitation has been regarded as "illegal", even so, the numbers of persons who choose non-marriage cohabitation as a kind of family lifestyle has never been reduced, but increased. If we want to make the Chinese law about marriage and family perfect, we must pay more attention to the identity, property relations between parties in non-marriage cohabitation and manage to regulate them. This article define the non-marriage cohabitation as a steady and long-drawn living community which is formed by a unmarried man and a unmarried woman who are at least 18 years old and who are not psychopaths, discuss it's causes: being influenced by the tradition of the ritualistic wedlock; cohabitation of a unmarried man and a unmarried woman who can't have marriage; diversification of family pattern; being...