Sentences with phrase «cohabitation increases»

As cohabitation increases and family instability continues to rise, we would do well to find ways to encourage adolescents and emerging adults to be wise and intentional in their romantic decision - making.

The proportion of first marriages that were preceded by cohabitation increased from 8 percent in the late 1960s to 49 percent by the mid -»80s.

With cohabitation increasing within today's society even as marriage declines, we can expect Generation X and older millennials to still largely be looking for monogamous relationships while younger generations are more likely to explore polyamorous dating.

Rather it shows that marriage rates are falling and consequently cohabitation increasing irrespective of the law.

As the length of cohabitation increased, the risk of these outcomes decreased.

Not exact matches

The increase of cohabitation of a man and woman is a forerunner and is more common today then people who are married.

Yet in our times this institution has been gravely weakened by the sexual revolution and the damage it has done to marriage and the family: widespread divorce; the dramatic increase in out - of - wedlock births; the casual acceptance of premarital sex and cohabitation; and a contraceptive mentality which insists that sex has an arbitrary relation to procreation.

With more singles than ever, a 50 percent or so divorce rate, a tenfold increase in cohabitation and a growing number of people questioning whether marriage is still relevant, our nosy relatives and family friends can't help themselves from asking why we're not getting with the program.

With more singles than ever, a 50 percent or so divorce rate, a tenfold increase in cohabitation and a growing number -LSB-...]

Additionally, most to some degree faced social pressure to marry, which reflects Andrew Cherlin's (2004) argument that despite the increase in cohabitation and «deinstitutionalization» of marriage, the symbolic significance of marriage remains high within the culture.»

Analysts cite such factors as the rising median age for first marriages, an increased acceptance of cohabitation, and difficult economic times for the increase in singles.

Notably, increased life expectancy, the fusion of cultures, the rate of cohabitation and emerging technologies will provide compelling new opportunities for innovation.

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.

Its seminal report on cohabitation issued on July 2007, is a ground - breaking paper setting out a proposed structure for the protection of the increasing numbers of couples who live together outside marriage or civil partnership, but whose financial and property affairs are closely entwined.

We have observed an increase in clients giving serious consideration to these concerns and entering into cohabitation and pre - / post-nuptial agreements.

Marriage rates in Britain are at their lowest since 1917, while the rate of cohabitation outside of marriage has increased dramatically.

We've also seen a marked increase in cases where couples are looking to protect themselves and their assets through cohabitation agreements or «pre-nups».

This is why an increasing number of cohabiting couples sign Cohabitation Agreements.

In Gomez v. McHale, a case where the marriage lasted 9 months and the cohabitation period was less than five years (triggering s. 5 (6)(e) of the FLA), the ONCA refused to increase the appellant's equalization payment.

«Despite the increased frequency of cohabitation, it does not give those living together the same legal right as their married counterparts.»

Cohabitation Since the 1970s the number of cohabiting couples has increased dramatically.

Cohabitation agreements (also known as adult interdependent partner agreement in Alberta), pre-nuptial agreements, matrimonial property agreements, and separation agreements («Family Agreements») are still touchy subjects for couples that are entering a new phase of increased commitment or in the process -LSB-... read full post]

It was formed in response to the increasing pressures on marriage and family in our culture — pressures which have led to high rates of divorce, unwed births, cohabitation, lack of parental responsibility, breakdown in family communication, and so on.

According to a briefing report presented to the Council on Contemporary Families, cohabitation has increased by more than 900 percent in the past 50 years.

The increase in nonmarital cohabitation has focused attention on the distinction between married - couple stepfamilies and cohabiting - couple «stepfamilies.»

Analyses from FFCWS suggest that exits from cohabitation or marriage between the year - one and year - three interviews are associated with deteriorating mental health for men, but not for women, whose mental health seems to be less sensitive to family structure changes (except that women who exit from cohabitation do have larger increases in anxiety than other groups).

Prior research on nonmarital childrearing reveals that a parent's romantic relationship, positive coparenting, and parental cohabitation are all positively associated with increased paternal involvement and support.

If you look at how satisfaction changes from before to after couples cohabit (i.e., the subset of participants that make up the longitudinal sample), satisfaction generally increases prior to cohabitation and then levels off (i.e., it does not change).

According to a briefing report presented today to the Council on Contemporary Families, cohabitation has increased by more than 900 percent in the past 50 years.

According to the New York Times, cohabitation in the U.S. has increased by more than 1,500 percent in the last 50 years.

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.

Study after study continues to document that cohabitation before marriage increases the chance of divorce and dissatisfaction in marriage.

Part of the increase in single parenthood is a result of a rise in cohabitation, which has been increasing since 1960, when a little more than 1 percent of all co-residential couples in the United States were unmarried.

Both relationship transitions (cohabitation or marriage) result in increased constraints on your options in life; I and my colleague Galena Rhoades have been arguing for a while now that it's important to be making careful decisions when one is about to go through a transition, like cohabitation, that restricts future options.i

With respect to the impact of cohabitation on children, the movement of mothers into and out of cohabiting relationships significantly increases the likelihood of family instability for children, as well as poverty and other hardships.

People are marrying later in life, but they are still living together in young adulthood; cohabitation is considered acceptable among an increasing number of later teens and early adults (Karney et al. 2007).

And some of the couples who do not marry will, nevertheless, be together longer because of cohabitation, thereby increasing their odds of having an unplanned child together, which puts both their child and their own future marriages at risk.

As stark as the record out - of - wedlock birthrate and cohabitation figures are for the United States, European statistics suggest that marital breakdown could increase by up to 50 percent over the next decade.

The rapid increase in U.S. cohabitation — up more than 74 percent since 2000 — complicates analysis of its impacts, especially on children.

(Cohabitation leads to increased odds of unplanned births.)

In contrast, cohabitation and contact with children might be expected to increase for widows and attenuate the effects of bereavement.

Released by a group of eighteen family scholars, the latest edition of Why Marriage Matters offers important new findings from the social sciences on the state of marriage in the United States, including why recent increases in cohabitation and family instability pose a risk to children.

In fact, cohabitation actually increases the risk for sexual abuse of children.

In the developed world, the Second Demographic Transition has meant major changes in family structure and patterns; marriage and fertility rates have declined and cohabitation and divorce rates have increased (Lesthaeghe 2010; van de Kaa 1987).