Marriage is an excellent institution. It teaches you to be compatible with unknown and share everything you may hesitate to share even with the known. But today, some good thoughtful people that this institution is under threat.

News: Maharashtra Govt. and Live-Ins. Recognition in waiting?

Why the concept of Live-In came into existence after all? What was the basic reason is something less probed. With the advent of Nuclear families with Globalization in ‘90s somewhere youth imbibed a fear towards marital commitment. This actually led to rise and gradual social acceptance of live-in concept. ‘I will stay with you and both will see that are we compatible enough to live together till death…’

Somewhere even I am not comfortable with the idea of living in but still feel that Maharashtra Govt. has taken a positive step towards socializing the outcaste so that the oppressed may not suffer.

A and B lives together. B gets pregnant and A runs away. What will happen? B will have to live with stigma and child will suffer for something he had no role.

A and B lives together. A is already married but hides the fact. What will happen? B will have to live with the feeling of being cheated.

In both cases today law cannot punish A or sort out B’s woes. Reason: It’s not legal.

We cannot stop people living in together so that there are minimum woes. The advisable thing is that legalize the practice that has been widely adopted. Hadn’t we adopted the Abortion Of Unborn Babies to stop population explosion and teen-pregnancies. We should move ahead with people.

http://justada.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/10/live-in-and-live-out.htm