Cohabitors with children may avoid marriage because they are afraid of hurting the children; they want to reduce the risk of injury. Lewis believes that the decline of the male breadwinner model and the increase in female employment, as well as the change in family law, are the origins of the temporary couple. Dench and Lewis share the same feelings in this matter. Dench and Lewis believe that women's participation in the economy, their desire for more independence (individualism), and the decline of the male breadwinner model are the main causes of marriages that do not last. That said, as mentioned previously, family remains central to most people (Scott 1997). Beck and Beck-Gernsheim said: “When discussing the future of “the” family, people often start from false premises. They compare the familiar father-mother-child model to a vague notion of “no family,” or assume that some other type of family replaces the nuclear family. It is much more likely… that instead of one kind of gender replacing the other, there will be a wide variety of ways of living together or apart, which will continue to exist side by side. Lewis shares the same view that one must have democratic intimate relationships, not just a conventional version of