Sentences with phrase «by cohabiting couples»

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.

«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.»

Not exact matches

Which is why studies such as the latest by the Institute for Family Studies, which touts the benefit of marriage over cohabitation when it comes to family instability, bother me: there's no way to know if the couples who cohabit would end up divorced if they wed or if their kids would be worse off if they stayed together — and perhaps subjected their kids to abuse, conflict, addiction or other dysfunctions.

Recently, there have been some interesting studies that show that cohabiting couples — a hugely growing segment of society — often go to couples therapy earlier than married couples and, guess what, they feel more satisfied and committed by the experience.

• Among cohabiting couples with newborns, both parents» beliefs that father - involvement is important plus fathers» actual involvement (measured here by regular nappy - changing) were found to predict relationship stability (Hohmann - Marriott, 2006).

Nearly a quarter of couples who are cohabiting when they have children will actually go on to get married within five years of becoming parents, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies which is oddly little cited by the family breakdown lobby.

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.

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.

Under new proposals revealed by the Law Commission last month, cohabiting couples would have the opportunity to share each other's earnings if they split up.

An infographic showing married couple, cohabiting couple and lone parent families by the country of birth of the family reference person.

Recent reform in Scotland has seen the introduction of a framework within which to resolve financial disputes between cohabiting couples and this, in turn, has afforded cohabitants in Scotland a degree of financial security which they have not previously enjoyed and which are not shared by their contemporaries south of the border.

Of these, 12.5 m were married couples, but cohabiting couple families grew by 29.7 % between 2004 and 2014.

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.

Deputy Master Matthews agreed, he considered that as the act envisages the possibility of a couple who are divorced putting themselves back into the remit of the act by remarrying, why then should the person who cohabits (as opposed to remarries) not be entitled to bring claim under the status of cohabitant.

He calls for greater rights for cohabiting couples «to address the hardship and injustice suffered by cohabitants on breakdown of the relationship, as identified by the Law Commission».

Clarity could be given to the division of property firstly, and most importantly, by extending to long - term cohabiting couples the property division regimes enjoyed by married spouses.

According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of couples opting to cohabit has risen by 50 % between 1996 and 2004.

The best way for cohabiting couples to establish rights and obligations between themselves is by contractual agreement.

In addition to the explanations provided by the authors, it's also fair to assume that cohabiting couples have more opportunity to argue and interact negatively.

Furthermore, the number of cohabiting couple families has increased by 3 % and lone parent families has risen by 2 % over the same period.

Many of the 2.3 million UK cohabiting couples don't realise they don't acquire any rights or entitlements by living with their partner.

Building Love Maps: It does not seem to matter whether couples have been cohabiting for a decade or are fresh faced 20 - somethings — they still manage to update their love maps by going through the Love Map Card Deck.

Researchers have investigated the role of «placemaking» in relationships, seeking to understand how objects in a home reflect and represent the couple that resides in that space.1 In a study published in the journal Personal Relationships, researchers asked partners who were married, or couples that were not married but cohabiting, to list objects in their homes and note whether each item was acquired by a particular partner individually («that's my ’59 Fender Stratocaster and your first edition of Darwin's Origin of Species»), or whether the couple had acquired it together («our collection of vintage pornography»; see this post for more on language use and relationships).

This leaves some couples with quite a dilemma as the choice to get divorced is often overshadowed by the ability to live independently after the divorce is final so some couples are cohabiting after divorce mediation to cut down on costs but is that really a good idea?

By 2008, when those changes are fully in effect, penalties would be eliminated for most cohabiting families (considering marriage) with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty line, [10] but substantial penalties (averaging $ 1,742) would still remain for 44 percent of all cohabiting couples, mostly those with incomes between $ 20,000 and $ 30,000 a year.

In one of our recent papers, Galena Rhoades explained a type of risk that is unrecognized by some couples until they experience it while living together.v In this paper, which included some of the most sophisticated analyses we've ever conducted on how couples change when they cohabit (controlling, powerfully, for selection by examining within - person changes), she noted that, for many couples, cohabitation combines two different developmental tasks in one period of time.

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.

As it turns out, by not cohabiting before marriage, my husband and I avoided what many experts consider a relationship «pitfall» for most marriage - minded couples.

We argue that the notion of structural property can be extended to marital and cohabiting couples by focusing on the activities shared by husbands and wives (or partners).