Sentences with phrase «cohabit at»

Middle American mothers are often living with their child's father at the time they give birth — in fact, they begin to cohabit at about the same age they used to marry — but these relationships often don't last.

We should not, therefore, be surprised to find that those who are on a lower - risk pathway (for example, as Kuperberg suggests, those who cohabit at age 23 years or later), are at lower risk of divorce.

Infertility was most likely to be experienced by people who were married or cohabiting at the time they were interviewed for the study, probably reflecting the fact that those in stable relationships were more likely to have attempted pregnancy and therefore become aware of fertility problems.

Critics of the Cohabitation Rights Bill may express concern that the introduction of such rights may be open to abuse and undoubtedly the courts would be faced with some cases where the parties do not agree the period of cohabitation or even that they have cohabited at all.

Building on findings that the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) resulted in higher rates of marital stability among two - parent recipient families who participated in this initiative that provided financial incentives to welfare recipients who worked, this report documents MFIP's long - term effects on marriage and divorce among participants in the program's sample of nearly 2,500 two - parent families who were married or cohabiting at study entry.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.&raquAt a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.&raquat least we believe in marriage as an institution.»

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.

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.

Although she and her boyfriend were in a committed cohabiting relationship for six years, and although she insists they «didn't need a piece of paper to affirm» their commitment, it's pretty obvious that she actually did need a piece of paper, or at least ring on her finger:

Still, even a recent and presumably agenda-less Pew Study finds similar results, at least when it comes to cohabiting couples» economic well - being; they're poorer, and that puts stress on a relationship.

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.

Yes, according to Merle Weiner, a law professor at the University of Oregon, who proposes that rather than focus on marriage, the state should create a parent - partner status that would legally bind parents — married, cohabiting, living apart, romantic partners or not — with certain mandatory obligations in order to give their children what they need to thrive.

Yet at the same time, the number of cohabiting couples increased fourteen-fold — from 439,000 to more than 6.4 million.

Cordell says cohabiting fathers have «no defined rights at the outset.

Single and cohabiting stay - at - home mothers are more likely than married stay - at - home mothers with working husbands to say they are ill or disabled, unable to find a job, or enrolled in school.

Unmarried, cohabiting parents may be putting their kids at risk for a host of personal problems — at least according to a new report from the University of Virgina's National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values.

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

A study in 2006 from the University of York (2) with 18,533 families looked at the parental relationship and postpartum depression and specifically focused on whether the mom was married, cohabiting or single.

Single fathers with custody are more likely to have a cohabiting partner than single mothers, and that partner is probably at least sharing household tasks.

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

According to Susan Brown, a demographer at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, cohabiting among older people increased 50 % from 2000 to 2006.

Dr. Temperance Bones Brennan, born Joy Ruth Keenan is a forensic anthropologist and works at... If you are asking from when onwards, that would be from the start of season 7 when Bones / Emily was pregnant and Bones and Booth were cohabiting, waiting

Although the mother may be living with the child's father at the time of the birth, these cohabiting relationships are very fragile.

Common - law partner A person of the opposite or the same sex who has either cohabited with you for at least one year in a conjugal relationship or is the parent of your child.

This improves the chances of the cats perceiving each other as being in the same social group, or at least peacefully cohabiting.

For his project «A work in situ», at REDCAT, John Knight revisits this relationship between two cohabiting institutions (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater and Walt Disney Concert Hall), in today's highly developed «cultural corridor» of downtown Los Angeles, considering the relationship between space, architecture, contemporary arts and real estate.Since the late «60s, John Knight has pioneered the practices of site - specificity and institutional critique, always interested in interrogating the underlying geopolitical and economic systems implicit in everyday convention.

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.

Unfortunately for the husband, when he made his first offer to capitalise at # 75,000 it was in issue whether or not the wife was then cohabiting with the man she came to marry.

At para 51 of their lead judgment, Lady Hale and Lord Walker set down the following principles to be applied in determining beneficial shares where a family home is held in the joint names of a cohabiting couple without the benefit of any express declaration of trust:

All of this is, of course, at a time when cohabitation is on the increase and the number of children born to cohabiting parents is rocketing.

Notwithstanding that, cohabiting relationships are increasingly common and have been given statutory recognition in Scotland, at least, such couples appear in certain circumstances to be excluded from the «comprehensive protection of citizens» rights «trumpeted in this part of the draft Withdrawal Agreement.

However, no such exemption applies to common - law spouses (defined by federal legislation as one who is «cohabiting with the individual in a conjugal relationship having so cohabited for a period of at least one year or having a child together, or entering into a cohabitation agreement»).

In those provisions, the term «spouse» includes cohabiting couples who have lived together for a period of at least three years or cohabiting biological or adoptive parents (s. 29).

Cohabitants are already able to make application under Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (I (PFD) A 1975) upon death of the former cohabitant provided that they can show they have cohabited for at least two years.

Citing Steffen v Bryer et al, 2004 MBCA 83 (CanLII) at para 26, 184 ManR (2d) 310, the Court of Appeal confirmed it had previously decided the question of whether two people are cohabiting in a conjugal relationship is «one of fact for the decision - maker to determine on the evidence».

On the other hand, at the start of a relationship, one can choose to cohabit (common - law), marry etc..

Common Law Marriage (Ontario) As I just blogged about (see previous blog post), there is a big misconception that cohabiting couples either have the same rights and obligations as married spouses (which they don't) or don't have any rights at all (which they do / can have) when it comes to things like support, ownership -LSB-...]

When the court decides the terms of a divorce at trial, the judge has the power to order that alimony will not terminate if the supported spouse remarries or cohabits with another person.

Section 1C (2) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 is directed at protecting members of the general public from an offender's conduct and could not be used to protect a wife with whom an offender had been and would in the future be cohabiting — since she would be in the same household as the offender.

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.

At present, cohabiting couples — who account for one in 12 of all family units — have few rights under our family laws.

Still, even a recent and presumably agenda-less Pew Study finds similar results, at least when it comes to cohabiting couples» economic well - being; they're poorer, and that puts stress on a relationship.

She cautions that children in cohabiting households may face more difficulties growing up if their unmarried parents are at higher risk of breaking up.

The family transitions variable is derived from information about mothers» relationship status (married, cohabiting, single) at the three different measurement points.

That share was more than twice the rate in 1980 (18 percent) and an eightfold increase from the rate in 1960 (5 percent).2 Half of the children born to unwed mothers live, at least initially, with a single mother who is not residing with the child's biological father (although about 60 percent of this group say they are romantically involved with the father), while half live with an unwed mother who is cohabiting with the child's father.3 These estimates imply that today one - fifth of all children are born into single - mother families, while another fifth are born into cohabiting - couple families.

Shirley Liu and Frank Heiland find that among couples unmarried at the time of the child's birth, marriage improved cognitive scores for children whose parents later married.41 Terry - Ann Craigie distinguishes among stable cohabiting unions, stable single - mother homes, and stable married - couple families, as well as unstable cohabiting families and unstable married - couple families.

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

She finds no difference in children's vocabulary scores at age three between stable two - parent families (whether cohabiting or married) and stable single - mother families, but she finds that scores are lower in unstable families (whether cohabiting or married) than in stable families.42 Carey Cooper and co-authors also highlight the role that partnership instability plays in the link between family structure and child cognitive development, although these links are much weaker than those they find for behavioral development (discussed below).43

Dating couples seem to argue most about issues such as commitment, time together, and the future of the relationship while married couples tend to argue about issues that come with sharing a household, such as money, children, and the division of labor.4 Cohabiting couples, especially those who have not made a formal commitment to marry each other, may get a particularly high dose of all of these kinds of issues and at a time when they don't necessarily have the commitment to the relationship or the skills yet to be able to tackle them well.