Outlines: Different views on Living Apart Together
Part 1 in the exam question asks you to give an outline of the different views presented in texts 2 and 3 on Living Apart Together.
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Home Alone Together
“Home Alone Together” is an article from The New York Times website, published in 2006, and written by Jill Brooke.
In the article, the author presents different views on Living Apart Together, most of which support the idea, especially for older couples.
The text presents the opinion of David Popenoe, a researcher at the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University (p. 3, l. 13) who argues that the L.A.T. trend reveals how fragmented our society is, but also that it is “a way of avoiding complicated inherita…
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Just What Modern Romance Needs: “Living Apart Together”
“Just What Modern Romance Needs: “Living Apart Together”” is a comment from Associated Content website, published in 2007, and written by Gary Picariello.
In the comment, the author presents his opinion on the topic of living apart together and argues that this trend is “A New Term for Couples Who Just DON’T Want to Commit” (p. 6).
The author is very sarcastic and critical of this trend, pointing out many times that such a l…
