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You Won't Believe Who's Living in Sin!

Your grandmother! The Census Bureau has the shocking news: Grandpa and Grandma are shacking up. There are at least 203,000 unmarried couples living in sin where one partner is over age 65. And another 1 million people aged 45 to 64 are also living in unwedded bliss. WHAT is happening here?

The very people who coined the phrase "living in sin" are now, well, doing it themselves. "There aren't many trends where grandparents are imitating their grandchildren, but cohabitation is one of them," Dorion Solot, co-founder of the Alternatives to Marriage Project of Boston, told The Associated Press.
WHY? The reasons vary, but this dramatic social shift is typically rooted in a bad experience in a previous marriage coupled with a very real desire to keep his and her finances separate.

While married couples head more than half the country's 105.5 million homes, the number of households with two unrelated adults--a man and a woman--has reached 4.7 million. But households where one of those unrelated adults is 65 and older have grown a whopping 60 percent in just 12 years. However, an important aspect the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey does not measure is the nature of the relationship between these two unmarried adults. While many are lovers, some are just platonic friends who have realized that two can live more cheaply than one.

Some experts think the Census number is flat out wrong--because it's a lowball. They think it's far greater than a mere 203,000 households. One of these experts is University of Michigan sociologist Pamela Smock who believes there are more unmarried old folks living together than we realize. "I would speculate that the older population is somewhat more hesitant to even admit to living together," Smock told AP. "They grew up and were young adults in a time when 'shacking up' was very much stigmatized." (Of course, THEY were the ones who created the stigma, but we won't go there...) Smock thinks that the changing societal mores and the fact that people are living longer contribute to the increase.

Still, there is at least one problem when the old folks shack up. Vic Pelton, 73, and his live-in lady love Jean Lovetang, 64, still haven't figured this one out: What should his grandchildren call his girlfriend? "They don't want to call her 'Grandma', so they finally just called her Jean," he said. That works.

Cathryn Conroy

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