Sentences with phrase «cohabitants break»

Recent research by the University of Wisconsin indicates that 40 % of cohabitants break up before getting married.

Although this goes some way towards recognising the diffi cult and unique situation that arises when the relationship between cohabitants breaks down, the absence of legislation to cover these situations is challenging to say the least.

Not exact matches

«If we unwind civil and religious marriage as a way to solve the conflict in legal and religious understandings, we will have reduced that couple to mere cohabitants, with crappy remedies if the couple breaks up,» she said.

Cohabitants still struggle to get a fair deal when their relationships break down, says Lorraine Jones

The cohabitants were also more than three times more likely than married parents to move on to a cohabiting or marital relationship with a new partner if their relationship did break up.9 Researchers paint a sorry picture of the effect these disruptions have; children suffer emotionally, academically, and financially when they are thrown onto this kind of relationship carousel.10