1. Commitments to Cohabitation
Smart and Stevens
(2000)
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2. Contingent Commitment
Mutual Commitment
The couple have not known
each other long before cohabiting
relationship is established
before cohabiting
2. no legal / financial agreements
2. Some legal / financial agreement
3. Children are unplanned
(although may be wanted)
3. Children are planned / wanted
by both parents
4. Pregnancy predates
cohabitation
4. Both parents involved in
childcare
5. Significant personal change
needed for relationship to work
5. mutually-agreed expectations
for the relationship
6. No presumption relationship
will work - only a hope
6. A presumption the relationship
will last

3. Contingent Commitment
Mutual Commitment
The couple have not known
each other long before cohabiting
relationship is established
before cohabiting
2. no legal / financial agreements
2. Some legal / financial agreement
3. Children are unplanned
(although may be wanted)
3. Children are planned / wanted
by both parents
4. Pregnancy predates
cohabitation
4. Both parents involved in
childcare
5. Significant personal change
needed for relationship to work
5. mutually-agreed expectations
for the relationship
6. No presumption relationship
will work - only a hope
6. A presumption the relationship
will last