How many couples in Britain were estimated to be in LATs according to Haskey (2005)?

• A. 2 million
• B. 500,000
• C. 10 million
• D. 100,000

Answer: (A)

LATs, or living apart together, describe couples who are in a romantic relationship and see themselves as a couple but maintain separate households. In Britain in the mid-2000s, Haskey estimated around 2 million couples were in LATs. This figure shows that living apart as a chosen arrangement is a significant portion of modern intimate life, not a rare anomaly, reflecting factors like housing costs, personal independence, or specific relationship goals.

The other options don’t fit the data because they either understate the scale (hundreds of thousands) or overstate it (tens of millions). A figure around two million sits in a plausible middle that aligns with survey-based estimates of how common LATs were at the time.