Living Apart Together: Legal Protections for a New Form of Family Bowman Cynthia Grant
Living Apart Together: Legal Protections for a New Form of Family Bowman Cynthia Grant Argues for legal reforms to protect couples who live apart but perform many of the functions of a familyLiving…
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Living Apart Together: Legal Protections for a New Form of Family Bowman Cynthia Grant
Argues for legal reforms to protect couples who live apart but perform many of the functions of a familyLiving Apart Together is an in-depth look at a new way of being a couple and "doing family"-living apart together (LAT)-in which committed couples maintain separate residences and finances. The term LAT stems from Europe, where this manner of coupledom has been extensively studied; however, it has gone virtually unnoticed in the United States.Living Apart Together aims to remedy this oversight by presenting original research derived from both randomized surveys In Bowman's own 2016 national survey, 9% of respondents reported maintaining committed relationships while living apart, typically spending the weekend together, socializing together, taking vacations together, and looking after one another in illness, but maintaining financial independence.