Cohabitation: Just a Phase?
This story deals with the question of whether or not cohabitation is a way to prepare for marriage, or if it even has to do with marriage at all. This brings up a very interesting topic that I believe could very easily be shaped into a local story.
I think the best way to take a local angle on this story would be to find the most common place and age group that cohabitation occurs -- amongst college students. I think it would be a great idea to find the percentages of students at SJSU who are 1. involved in relationships and 2. how many of those relationships involve living together. After I have figured this out, I would then see how many of those couples living together had ever discussed the possibility of marriage and if cohabitation was the leading cause of their preparing for marriage.
The people that I would interview for this story would simply be the college students at SJSU who had been living together for a steady amount of time. I would ask them various questions such as, have they considered marriage before? Was moving in together a step in preparing for marriage? Did money and paying the rent play into their decision to move in together? And various questions similar to those to find out the real reason for cohabitation amongst college students.
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You're on the right track, but I think it would be difficult to find out (for certain) what percentage of SJSU students are involved in relationships and cohabiting ... unless you want to get into conducting a scientifically accurate survey.
Instead, I'd start interviewing students and get their take on this. Make sure to talk to some who are cohabiting and some who aren't ... and some who used to.
Your questions are good. I'd also see if any SJSU psych profs do research in this area (or teach classes that cover this) and perhaps add an "expert" opinion.
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