Lavaliering is a "pre-engagement" engagement that is a tradition in the Greek life of college campuses.
Since fraternities and sororities do not occur much outside of the United States, this occurs, for the most part, only in the US.
The date, which had previously been the public courting method for the lower class, was adopted by young adults across the upper and middle classes.
Meetings between lovers began to be more distant from rigid parental supervision.
Also, some schools have a very strict “no dating students” policy, so it’s best to do your research first before you get wrapped up in a relationship that may be doomed from the start.
– He’s handsome, established, and has his life all mapped out — exactly WHAT does he see in an underclassman that carries a fake I. and still has to hit up mom and dad up for money on a weekly basis?
Date rape, violence, and sexual harassment are also very common occurrences on college and university campuses.
Before the 1920s, the primary reason for courting someone was to begin the path to marriage.
Such phenomena as hooking up and lavaliering are widely prominent among university and college students.
Hooking up is a world wide phenomenon that involves two individuals having a sexual encounter without interest in commitment.
However, the goal of the process was still focused on ending in a marriage.
Around the 1920s, the landscape of courtship began to shift in favor of less formal, non-marriage focused rituals.