Sentences with phrase «cohabiting only»

Before any of these studies were conducted, we predicted that couples who cohabited only after engagement (or marriage) would, on average, do better in marriage than those who began to cohabit prior to having such clear, mutual plans to marry.

Granted, recent studies have found no added divorce risk from cohabitation, but Dr. Stanley notes that this is only true for a select group of couples: those who cohabit after age 23, who get engaged before cohabiting, and who cohabit only with the person they marry.

Not exact matches

The document first spends a paragraph on cohabiting couples and those who are only civilly married.

Because your financial situation isn't the best reason to move in together; you should only cohabit if you're prepared to live with your partner 24/7 and all his or her peccadilloes, and not because you want to save money.

While a few of my middle - aged divorced friends are now in cohabiting relationships, I don't know many long - term couples who never married — just three, and of them only two have raised their children without «a piece of paper» or a ring on a finger.

Because the only way to have a relationship — married or not, cohabiting or not, monogamous or consensually non-monogamous, you name it — that continues happily is to have each person choose each other over and over because they love each other in a way that they want to stay together (which, of course, is the thinking behind a renewable marriage contract).

Fully 30 % of cohabiting single fathers are younger than 30, compared with only 10 % of those who are not living with a spouse or partner.

According to research, by a child's seventh birthday, 31 per cent of the couples who were cohabiting when their child was nine months old had separated, compared to only 12 per cent of married parents.

Recent statistics show that 42 percent of kids have lived in a cohabiting household by the age of twelve (by contrast, only 24 percent of kids have experienced divorce by that age).

The Calgary cat - licensing regulation is designed to specifically exclude ferals by limiting licensing only to cats who cohabit in a home.

This programme has been constructed in the awareness that style is less a question of stylistics than ethics, i.e. a way of keeping its subject at a distance, of including the out - of - frame as a dynamic produced by the viewer, of thinking not only about the production of images, but also about their distribution, and how they cohabit with other sources of images.

In Scotland, the only way for cohabiting couples to obtain a share of each other's estate when one of them dies where there is no Will, is to apply to the court for a discretionary financial award.

According to predictions of government actuaries, by 2031 there will be 3.8 m cohabiting couples and only 10m married couples in England and Wales.

For example, unmarried cohabiting spouses in Ontario are not entitled to some remedies that are available only to married spouses, such as equalization of family property.

Despite this, the redistribution of money and property at the end of a cohabiting relationship can only be regulated — in the absence of an express agreement — by the imposition of complex equitable remedies.

The redress arrangements applies only to those qualified cohabitants whose relationship ends after the Act commenced on 1 January 2011, but the time spent cohabiting before that may be taken into account.

Using the 1999 National Survey of American Families, Brown found that only 1.5 percent of all children lived with two cohabiting parents at the time of the survey.17 Similarly, an analysis of the 1995 Adolescent Health Study (Add Health) revealed that less than one - half of 1 percent of adolescents aged sixteen to eighteen had spent their entire childhoods living with two continuously cohabiting biological parents.18

As we discuss below, one recent study found that family stability trumps family structure as it pertains to early cognitive development even after controlling for economic and parental resources.26 It has been shown that children living in stable single - parent families (that is, families that were headed by a single parent throughout childhood) do better than those living in unstable two - parent families (that is, families that had two parents present initially but then experienced a change in family structure).27 Another study finds that children living in stable cohabiting homes (that is, families where two parents cohabit throughout the child's life) do just as well as children living with cohabiting parents who eventually marry.28 But other research challenges the conclusion that it is family stability that is crucial for child wellbeing One study, for instance, found that children who experience two or more family transitions do not have worse behavioral problems or cognitive test scores than children who experience only one or no family transitions.

She may dispense advice only to heterosexual, legally married couples or accept clients who are just cohabiting or fall into the gay, lesbian, transgender or transsexual categories.

The custodial parent can only exercise this right if she's not cohabiting with someone herself, however.

The laws regarding cohabiting partners with children usually only apply to biological children.

Thirty - one percent of those who cohabited prior to having plans for marriage were in the top 40 percent of marital quality versus 43 percent of those who only cohabited after getting married or making a commitment to marry.

A couple who have decided to share together for a temporary period only (e.g. a couple who are unmarried or not in a civil partnership where one party lives elsewhere and is only on holiday in Ireland) are not therefore cohabiting as husband and wife / civil partners and one could not claim an increase for the other as a qualified adult.

Among those who cohabited before marriage, only those who fit the following categories are likely to have marital outcomes similar to those who did not live together before marriage:

As I understand her analyses, here is one way to summarize her findings: For people who only ever live with the one person they end up marrying, and who do not have a child prior to cohabiting, and who wait to cohabit or marry until after the age 23, the risk for divorce related to cohabiting before marriage is very low.

C. People who only ever cohabited with the person they marry, after having mutually clarified plans for marriage, are at no greater risk for divorce or lower marital happiness than those who wait until marriage to live together.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCW), meanwhile, finds that «nearly half of parents who are cohabiting at the time of their child's birth break up within five years, compared to only 20 percent of married parents.»

«The science tells us,» Wilcox explains, «that children are not only more likely to thrive but are also more likely to simply survive when they are raised in an intact home headed by their married parents, rather than in a home headed by a cohabiting couple.»

Furthermore, only 10 % of cohabiting relationships last more than five years, thus exposing the children to repeated risk of further relationship loss.

«DeMaris and MacDonald (1993) found that the only situation in which cohabitation is associated with a higher divorce rate is among «serial cohabitors» — people who have cohabited with more than one partner.That's a small portion of all cohabitors.

A non-married couple with no common child was defined as a cohabiting two - parent family only if the two adult residents were of different sex and not siblings, over the age of 18 years and their age difference was < 16 years.

The bottom panel follows the same format but includes only those partnered respondents whose spouse or cohabiting partner also completed the interview (all dyads), in Columns 1 — 3 for both sexes combined, and in Columns 4 — 6 for males and in Columns 7 — 9 for females.