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Between 1960 and 2004, the number of unmarried couples in America increased by more than 1,200 percent. We are seeing a massive cultural change where romantic love and courtship has given way to a new alternative. We are entering a period of “cultural cluelessness” as Rutgers sociologist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead explains. “Most societies have had a script and young adults have been guided through that script,” she says. “And now the script is being so radically revised that nobody knows what it is anymore or people have torn it up.” (Click here to read more.)

Between 1960 and 2004, the number of unmarried couples in America increased by more than 1,200 percent.

We are seeing a massive cultural change where romantic love and courtship has given way to a new alternative. We are entering a period of “cultural cluelessness” as Rutgers sociologist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead explains. “Most societies have had a script and young adults have been guided through that script,” she says. “And now the script is being so radically revised that nobody knows what it is anymore or people have torn it up.” (Click here to read more.)