Sentences with phrase «comparing cohabiting couples»

Not exact matches

(One could now add, for example, the data indicating the greater incidence of violence among cohabiting, as compared to married, couples.)

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.

We used 1990 Census data to compare the matching behaviors of four types of cohabiting couples: same - sex male couples, same - sex female couples, opposite - sex unmarried couples, and married couples.

You can read all about the rights and obligations that cohabiting couples have or don't have (when compared to married spouses) here.

Cohabiting couples tend to be younger and have less college education than married couples, and cohabiting fathers tend to have lower incomes and are slightly less likely to be employed than married fathers (77 % compared to 90 %).19 Consequently, cohabiting couples may need more support to build economic stability, including job training and placement, as well as financial education to better manage less income and fewer Cohabiting couples tend to be younger and have less college education than married couples, and cohabiting fathers tend to have lower incomes and are slightly less likely to be employed than married fathers (77 % compared to 90 %).19 Consequently, cohabiting couples may need more support to build economic stability, including job training and placement, as well as financial education to better manage less income and fewer cohabiting fathers tend to have lower incomes and are slightly less likely to be employed than married fathers (77 % compared to 90 %).19 Consequently, cohabiting couples may need more support to build economic stability, including job training and placement, as well as financial education to better manage less income and fewer cohabiting couples may need more support to build economic stability, including job training and placement, as well as financial education to better manage less income and fewer resources.

The different effects of «living together»: Determining and comparing types of cohabiting couples.

Based on the Millennium Cohort Study of 10,000 mothers in the UK who were either married or cohabiting as a couple when their child was nine months old, we looked at how often these couples went out together at that time, and compared it to whether they were still together as a couple just over 10 years later.

Cohabiting couples are twice as likely to break up, compared to married couples, said Wilcox.

According to a study by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University, children in married - couple households have a poverty rate of 11 percent, compared to a 47 percent poverty rate for children in cohabiting opposite - sex couple households, and a 48 percent child poverty rate in single - mother households.

With a sample of 137 married and cohabiting couples, Barelds and Barelds - Dijkstra (2007) compared three types of couples: (a) those who said they were friends before being lovers; (b) those who experienced love at first sight; and (c) those who were intermediate (had known each other for a brief period before falling in love).

For example, a 2014 Bowling Green University study found that all types of cohabiting couples, including engaged couples, are significantly more likely to break up than get married, compared to cohabiting couples twenty years ago.

For instance, among those who cohabited, couples who decided to live together before marriage in an intentional way are more likely to enjoy happy marriages, compared to couples who just slid into cohabitation before marriage.

Specifically, compared with dating and married couples, couples who cohabit experience higher rates of serious physical assault.

In cohabiting couples with children, 63 percent of women, and 81 percent of men, were employed, compared with 66 and 91 percent of mothers and fathers, respectively, in married couples.

In cohabiting couples with children, just over four in ten parents are between 25 and 34 years old, compared with less than three in ten parents in married couples.

Compared with married couples with children, cohabiting couples with children tend to be younger, less educated, lower — income, and have less secure employment.