Sentences with phrase «because cohabiting»

Also, because cohabiting unions are more likely to dissolve than marriages, children in cohabiting unions are at a greater risk of spending time in a single - parent family, which significantly increases their poverty risk.

And because cohabiting unions are much less stable than marriages, the vast majority of the children born to cohabiting couples will see their parents break up by the time they turn 15.

She asserts that what was misunderstood all these years is that cohabiters are more likely to divorce, not because they cohabited, but because they tended to start living together when they were too young to either be making a wise choice in a mate or to take on the roles of marriage.

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This scripture is rarely used any more against homosexuality because it is understood by most to mean that the angels were leaving what was «natural» for them (i.e. their spiritual plain) to cohabit with humans.

Because needy children deserve support no matter who raises them, the state, the business community and the law should support them wherever they are located — whether with single, married, divorced, cohabiting, same - sex or foster parents.

Why does the state deny cohabiting siblings exemption from inheritance tax, purely because theirrelationship is non-sexual?

If we think of the family simply as individuals who consent to cohabit because such an arrangement meets their needs, we will never find reason to worry about assisted or collaborative reproduction.

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

Society seems to understand marriage but not other arrangements, such as cohabiting partners, and because of that we treat married couples differently and they view themselves differently.

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 saveBecause 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 savebecause you want to save money.

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 conBecause 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 conbecause they love each other in a way that they want to stay together (which, of course, is the thinking behind a renewable marriage contract).

There's been a lot of talk and a fair amount of hand - wringing about the numbers of couples that are living together — there are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s (in part because we're a lot more accepting of such arrangements and in part because Millennials are — wisely — delaying marriage).

Because of that, we know that typically, marriages are more much more stable than cohabiting relationships.

On the economic front, kids in cohabiting households tend to do better than kids in a single parent house, in part because they have access to two adults who can bring an income or resources into the home.

People are often mystified at equating divorce and cohabiting, because one is the break - up and one is the existence of a relationship.

Later on, because of respect earned by the Cañari, both civilizations worked out a way to cohabit the same region.

She does more now than she did when they first cohabited because she is no longer working.

Cohabiting couples are entitled to buy private houses and lending institutions will not refuse to give you a mortgage simply because you are cCohabiting couples are entitled to buy private houses and lending institutions will not refuse to give you a mortgage simply because you are cohabitingcohabiting.

About a third of romantic partners who aren't married or cohabiting are in Live Apart Together (LAT) partnerships for a variety of reasons, including a desire for commitment and independence or because of the restraints of school or work, or a desire to be close to their adult children.

This number will likely continue to drop because it is becoming increasingly normal for people to live with different partners across their dating history («serial cohabiting»).

Clearly people decide to cohabit for many reasons besides marriage (e.g., financial), and some even just «slide» into it, meaning that they gradually start living together out of convenience rather than because they are committed to each other.

Couples who cohabit prior to marriage because they want to «try things out» often adopt this approach because they already see some potential problems with long - term compatibility.4 It should come as no surprise then that these types of relationships are less than stable if they transition into a marital relationship (in fact, it's very likely that this «group» of cohabiters contributes a large degree to the finding that premarital cohabitation is bad for marriage).

But, couples who cohabit prior to marriage for practical reasons and plan to someday marry all along fare better (and in some respects may fare better than those that didn't cohabit), especially because these couples have had practice confronting and working through life and relationship stressors.5 For example, they've most likely experienced conflict and had an opportunity to see how they treat each other in such situations.6

When subjects believed that people cohabit because they want to test their relationship, answers were more approving about cohabitation.

An actuary is unlikely to be used by cohabiting couples who separate because — unlike divorce or dissolution — one partner doesn't have to share their pension with the other.

Because of these increases in cohabitation, about 40 % of American children will spend some time in a cohabiting union; 20 % of babies are now born to cohabiting couples.

As we have noted elsewhere (Rhoades, Stanley, & Markman, 2009b, 2010), cohabiting may not be a good test of a relationship because constraints (e.g., merging finances, sharing friends, adopting a pet) may make it more difficult to end the relationship when you realize a partner has failed the test.

But, on average, the group with higher risk should be those who cohabit prior to attaining mutual clarity about commitment because therein lies a subgroup who is at increased risk for marrying someone they would not had married if they had never moved in together.

«Traditional marriage is beautiful and wonderful, but it's not important for me because a wedding is what you do when you start your life with someone,» said cohabiting mom Allison, who is raising two kids with her boyfriend of four years.

For example, I think there are plenty of people who begin to cohabit without having clarified any future path with their partner who do fine because they land with someone who is a good partner for them anyway — very often, with the same person they would have ended up with if they had been more cautious.

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

This is mainly because more couples are having children in cohabiting unions, which are very unstable.

It may also help to know that divorced and cohabiting couples were overrepresented in the survey (because researchers rightly wanted to include people in different family types), and that these individuals were more likely to believe marriage is becoming obsolete.