Cohabitation In Vietnam Literature Review

1.1. Literature review

Cohabiting or living together before marriage is not only appeared in Vietnam but also appeared in the West from 60-70 years of last century. Compared to traditional societies, the concept of cohabitation is more open. This is a social phenomenon that needs to be care and research.

Undeniably that Vietnam was influenced quite large from Confucianism, since childhood, we have been taught to be polite to older people, for women, they are taught to defend virtue. The faithful spouse is also one of the oldest traditions of moral Vietnam, but with the development of society, integration with Western countries, young people have thought of a lot more open. They believe that cohabitation can help them test their relationship

Namely in the US from 1995 to 2005 the proportion of couples living together does not register their marriage increased from 13% to 53%. Another examples is that the study showed that there were now arguing that young people are tend to avoid marriage, as evidenced by the ratio of marriages in the country tends to decrease, in the proportion cohabiting to get married, the percentage who had no intention of marriage and the divorce rate is increasing (Charles et al., 2008, Lewis, in 2003, Lindsay and Dempsey, 2009, Straughan, 2009, Lindsay, 1996). Or research paper on the relationship between cohabitation and marriage (Bradbury, 2013), Mr. Brady also said that "half of all couples entering marriage first today, live together - all before marriage or cohabitation, and there are 10 times as many couples living together today there were just 30 years ago "(p. 32). More specifically, according to data in the late 1980s, about 44% of women who cohabited before the start of the first marriage, and this figure rose to 62% in the late 1990s (Bumpass and Lu 2000; Kennedy and Bumpass 2008).The majority of these researches indicates only the problem, but did not state why led to the current cohabitation, or

and on electronic media such as Reuters, Vnexpress, VietNamNet, tienphong, thanhnien ... and a number of other websites. We can say most of the articles have provided us a vivid proofs about cohabitation phenomenon, living together before marriage is widespread among students and staffs living outside the province studying in the major cities in our country today. The families of the students are in remote provinces, they can openly living in the motel room near the colleges and universities, not under the control of the school and the family. Besides that negative view, the other paper also talks about the benefits of cohabitation, for example, cohabitation will help reduce the cost of living because living together, the couples will share the money together, as so can save money, or even that they can have some money to send back home to help their family (Belanger and Tran 2011; PA Nguyen 2000). This is also one reason can be used when talking about the causes of the situation of student cohabitation Vietnam at present, but beyond this reason, there are other reasons that this study does not