Practices and perceptions of living apart together

Duncan, Simon; Phillips, Melissa S.; Carter, Julia; Roseneil, Sasha; Stoilova, Mariya

doi:10.1080/19424620.2014.927382

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Adéla and Alex, by contrast, stay within walking distance of each other, but usually contact each other only at the end of the week to plan the weekend together. Vlasta's behaviour is consistent with the fi ndings of Duncan et al [2014] that geographical distance and diverse daily rhythms are overcome in LAT partnerships by frequent telephone and internet contact; more than 50% of the surveyed British LATs' partners contact each other more than once a day.…”

Section: Satisfi Ed With the Distance And Time Togethersupporting

confidence: 79%

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Love Will Keep Us Apart? Understanding Living Apart Together Partnerships in the Post-state-socialist Czech Republic

Formánková¹,

Křížková²

2015

Czech Sociological Review

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Living apart together (LAT) relationships are under-researched in European sociology and overlooked in Czech sociology. Based on data from 16 biographical interviews with partners living in separate households, this analysis focuses on how LAT is experienced, understood, and explained in the context of the post-state-socialist Czech Republic. Do LAT partners actively choose LAT to avoid or subvert the norm of co-residence? Or do they frame their situation as a result of external constraints and pressures? What is the role of gender norms and of the gendering of a life course in the LAT experience? Our results show the high value that current Czech society continues to place on co-residential partnerships. The study also shows that persistent gender and social inequalities, specifi c for the post state-socialist Czech Republic, make individual choices more diffi cult or impossible in both private life arrangements and when combining private life with work. A LAT partnership is not always the result of individual choices, but the relationship often is shaped by external structural and institutional pressures and gendered norms.

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Section: Satisfi Ed With the Distance And Time Togethersupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Strohm et al 2009;Simon Duncan and Phillips 2010;Upton-Davis 2012;Phillips et al 2013;Duncan et al 2013;Stoilova et al 2014;Duncan et al 2014]. In Czech sociology, by contrast, these unions are under-researched.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Love Will Keep Us Apart? Understanding Living Apart Together Partnerships in the Post-state-socialist Czech Republic

Formánková¹,

Křížková²

2015

Czech Sociological Review

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“…In 2005 in France, nearly half of the stable non-coresidential intimate relationships had begun less than two years previously (Régnier-Loilier, Beaujouan, and Villeneuve-Gokalp 2009). Similar results were found for Britain in 2011, when 43% of LATs were found to be less than two years old (Duncan et al 2014), and for Australia (Reimondos, Evans, and Gray 2011). This high concentration of recently formed relationships indicates that they quickly either turn into cohabitation or end.…”

Section: A Longitudinal Life Course Perspectivesupporting

confidence: 72%

“…Since the prospect of cohabitation is linked to the reasons for not living together (Duncan et al 2014), it is hardly surprising that the development of the non-coresidential relationships is linked to them too. Those who described their situation as a choice made in order to keep their independence are proportionally more often still not coresident (41%), while living apart as a result of job constraints more often led to moving in together (41%).…”

Section: Partnership Trajectory Of People In a Stable Intimate Relatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Partnership trajectories of people in stable non-cohabiting relationships in France

Régnier‐Loilier¹

2016

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“…showing that these are not simply a function of age or stated reasons for LAT (Ermisch & Siedler, 2009;Turcotte, 2013;Duncan et al, 2014) As previous work shows that how people perceive the future of LAT partnerships is ambiguous and context-dependent (Roseneil, 2006;Stoilova et al, 2014), this study's second objective is to examine how the factors associated with intending to convert LAT into cohabitation vary with life course position. Fulfilling this objective will yield insights about who perceives LAT as more of a durable family form than a transitional step towards coresidence (Levin, 2004).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%