Sentences with phrase «cohabit as»

The relationship of the two sisters was quite different: they had chosen to cohabit as siblings but they did not fall into the privileged categories which the UK was entitled to recognise,» he says.

By contrast, the two sisters had chosen to cohabit as siblings.

Infuriated by the moral decadence he finds about him, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar determines to create a stern new morality of his own, a revived courtly righteousness which will put an end to the American baboon colony, as he calls it, where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.

(The strictures will extend to the cohabiting as well as the legally married, a fact one hopeful liberal commentator seems to have missed.

You can insure your partner if they are aged over 18 and under 79 and you have been cohabiting as a couple in the same dwelling for 6 months.

The question of whether a couple are cohabiting as husband and wife or civil partners affects entitlement under the Social Welfare Acts in a number of ways:

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.

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.

Not exact matches

As expected, Pope Francis reminds Catholics that gay marriage is not marriage and that couples that cohabit are still in «irregular» unions.

There are worrying social impacts downstream as a result of these factors: a lowered marriage rate, more adult children cohabiting with their parents, a reduction in the birthrate, and young people holding off on major life events such as starting relationships or home ownership.

In fact, same - sex marriage advocates can now take the rhetorical high ground: «At a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.»

Homosexual couples who want to commit themselves to a monogamous lifelong relationship find themselves in the same situation as anyone else who cohabits without benefit of marriage.

If marriage and civil partnerships are all about commitment, as David Cameron insists, then there is no difference, apart from the sexual aspect, between the relationship of a same - sex couples and that of equally loving, cohabiting sisters.

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.

Dramatic Move as Synod Fathers Set Out New Pastoral Care for Gays, Cohabiting Couples and Divorcees Christopher Lamb, The Tablet

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

Rates of paternal depression in one recent US study were 6.6 % (married fathers), 8.7 % (cohabiting), 11.9 % (romantically involved but not living together); and, among the fathers who were described as «not involved» with the mother 19.9 % were depressed (Huang & Warner, 2005).

As the study notes, «Without the institutionalized rules of marriage, cohabiting couples may perceive threats to their relationship earlier than married couples.»

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.

And some studies indicate that the stigma of cohabiting — versus being married — impacts younger couples, probably feeling the need to follow a normative romantic path, much more than older couples, who seem to fare quite well cohabiting or even as living apart together couples.

But he is not my husband nor do I pretend that he is, as some people I know who are in long - term cohabiting relationships refer to each other.

I am not suggesting that we do that, although I think offering people the option of term - limit marriages (as suggested by Mexico City legislators) for those who might then marry instead of, say, cohabit makes sense to me if they plan to raise children.

Cohabiting couples just don't get treated the same, nor do they see themselves as the same as married couples.

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.

As for Fanny and Zander — an unmarried but committed cohabiting co-parenting couple — they at least have conversations about monogamy and transparency even if they're struggling with feelings of jealousy.

Instead of putting the emphasis (and limited financial resources) on trying to prevent divorce, we as a society would be better off if we helped fragile families, whether married or cohabiting; poverty, joblessness, frequent cohabitation by single mothers (and 40 percent of births to single mothers are women who are cohabiting)-- this is what's creating conditions that lead to suffering among children.

Few cohabiting heteros live together for the long haul — most break up or marry in about five years, with many seeing it as a cost - saving measure (one apartment is cheaper than two) more than a statement of their commitment to each other.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

And, if so, would that mean fewer people would actually choose to marry, or even cohabit, given how «there is evidence of a certain fatigue with the difficulties of dealing with people,» as Sherry Turkle, a clinical psychologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, notes.

And I've talked about how couples can get «too comfortable» in a marriage — except, it happens with long - term cohabiting couples, too, as Susan Sarandon discovered.

For whatever reason, society tends to see cohabiting couples as «less than.»

Also, young married men are about twice as happy: 43 percent of married men report they are «very happy» with life, compared to 20 percent of single men and 24 percent of cohabiting men.»

As Hatch notes, the cohabiting couples she interviewed look and act a lot like married couples, with the same concerns and arguments, shared responsibilities (including in some cases children) and yes, even commitment.

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).

As the nation marks Father's Day on Sunday, evidence is growing that when marital bonds sever or cohabiting couples with children split, more men are unwilling to accept the visitation and child - support arrangements of yesterday and are doing what they can to remain relevant in their kids» lives.

As more chose to cohabit, they won't experience divorce but many won't avoid a breakup — 40 percent of cohabiting hetero couples split within five years.

Has the increase of unmarried cohabiting fathers as well as multipartnered fertility (having children with multiple partners) altered men's impact on children's outcomes?

One recent estimate from the National Survey of Family Growth found that kids in the mid-2000s born to cohabiting parents were more than twice as likely to see mom and dad break up by the age of 12 compared to kids born to married parents.

The report, released August 16 and entitled «Why Marriage Matters,» pulls together findings from 18 scholars to argue that kids living in cohabiting households don't do as well socially, educationally and psychologically as kids living in intact married households.

The authors point to a lack of stability in cohabiting relationships as one of the culprits: cohabiting couples with a child are more than twice as likely to break up before their child turns 12 as their married counterparts.

If one cohabiting partner dies then the remaining parent will not receive financial support designed to help them provide for their children, even though they will have paid the same National Insurance and their children have the same needs as any married parent.

Despite official figures showing that 48 % of babies born last year were born to unmarried parents (60 % of whom were cohabiting), we still treat their children as less deserving of support when they face the shock and distress of parental loss.

DAILY POST gathered that Pastor Obinna forcefully cohabited and impregnated the 17 - year - old simply identified as Blessing who was referred to his church, Messiah Apostolic Church for prayers.

Men in their first marriage showed a significant improvement in mood, but not as much as men who simply cohabited with the same woman for a long time.

The results show that 52 percent of married respondents and 51.7 percent of those in cohabiting relationships ending in marriage were rated as above average in physical attractiveness, whereas 45.9 percent of those in a cohabitating relationship without subsequent marriage and 43.6 percent in neither marriage nor cohabitation scored above average on the attractiveness scale.

At least 80 percent of plants cohabit in such a manner, and some estimates go as high as 95 percent.

It's about give and take when you live in what was formally known as a common law relationship — now known as cohabiting — and if you are both happy to compromise by staying over for a few days in a row then you're on t a winner!

Partners in committed relationships are also sometimes described as a significant other or simply partner, especially if the individuals are cohabiting.

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