My View on Cohabitation of University Student - wj090504/wj GitHub Wiki

Cohabitation of university students cannot be dodged for much longer. In many countries, cohabitation of university students is accepted and openly practiced. In China it is condemned by the public yet secretly practiced by many. Most universities in the country have regulations against students’ cohabitation. But the question remains how rational and effective are those rules. It is astonishingly easy to find university who will say, in private, that they are cohabiting with an opposite sex. Most say that they know somebody else who does. Because they contend that they are old enough to make such a significant decision, and that they have their right to choose their life style, they sincerely hope that the public abandon biased views against their practice. It is undeniably true that they have done nothing wrong on the part of others. Consequently it is paradoxical to label them as “wrong-doers”.

Some people fear that cohabitation of university students may pose a detrimental influence to their academic growth. Yet academic growth is by and large determined by one’s intelligence, motivation and environmental factors. If cohabitation can do little with intelligence, it is definitely facilitative to their motivation because they expect to shine at their schoolwork before their partner, which in turn contributes to their future development. Another worry is that university students are too young to wrestle with problems arising from cohabitation. Such worry is groundless when you realize that university students are all functioning as adults by legal standard and that there is no consensus when one is fully mature to grapple with cohabitation headaches. That depends on the individual.

In short, we have little to lose if we officially recognize cohabitation of university students. By refusing to do that, it will usher in more inconvenience and confrontation.