Sentences with phrase «cohabitation over»

If you have chosen cohabitation over marriage, you are not alone.

A small amount, about 10 percent, however, see living together as an alternative to marriage, and a recent study by sociologist Alison Hatch, «Saying I Don't to Matrimony: An Investigation of Heterosexual Couples Who Resist Marriage,» is a revealing look at why couples prefer cohabitation over marriage.

Not exact matches

To illustrate how commonplace this «cohabitation» is, Ambinder estimates that one - third of all married congressmen who have been on the Hill for over six years have had an affair.

This recognition that the power of ritual is made manifest in material forms illuminates how the bodily practices that underlie the behaviors in the study — premarital sex and cohabitation, deliberation over relationship decisions, and the gathering of supporters and witnesses in the marriage ceremony — shape marital quality.

In the end, the Church of England's governing body surrendered once again to the meretricious zeitgeist, affirming that marriage was «important» but that it should not be given preferential treatment over cohabitation or lone parenthood.

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 it's not like we can't move in together in the meantime: the rate of unmarried cohabitation has risen 1,000 percent over the last four decades.

(By all accounts, it was not an overly friendly cohabitation, with competition erupting over matters involving press releases.)

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However, according to a new survey by PARSHIP, unlike their European counterparts who would choose an unformalised long - term relationship over marriage (across Europe an average of 35 % favour a long - term relationship and 17 % a marital commitment)-- UK singles would go for wedding rings (29 %) rather than simple cohabitation (24 %).

GLOBAL TIMES - Nov 9 - A new survey by matchmaking website Zhenai.com revealed that over half of all single Chinese people born after the 1990s agree with premarital cohabitation.

While Malta does say seniors aren't necessarily interested in cohabitation or marriage, a number of them found themselves still in relationships they began online over a year prior to their interview.

she is supposed to be an overtly sexual woman over 35 who seeks out men for sex — but doesn't want commitment, cohabitation or children.

He has over fifteen years of experience as a family law specialist, including divorce and separation as well as offshore trusts, prenuptial agreements and cohabitation law.

Theo has over nine years» of family law experience, advising and representing professionals, business people and celebrities on a wide range of issues including cohabitation disputes, pre-nuptial agreements and children matters.

A strange and uncomfortable cohabitation exists between family (private), and administrative (public), lawyers over interpretations of the Child Support Act 1991 (CSA 1991) and in representation of parents and the secretary of state for work and pensions in child support proceedings.

The prevalence of cohabitation and of the birth of children to couples who live together means that the need for law reform can only become more pressing over time.

Spousal maintenance is usually paid over a fixed period of time but can be paid until death, remarriage (not cohabitation) or until the Court orders for it to stop.

Trends in cohabitation: Over twenty years of change, 1987 — 2010.

Cohabitation likely represents a time when partners are dealing with the kinds of issues dating couples tend to have conflict over and, at the same time, also dealing with issues that married couples tend to argue about, making it a particularly vulnerable time in a relationship for conflict.

For example, a mother may wish to call the child's therapist to testify that the child told the therapist that during visitation dad yells, drinks, swears, watches pornography, has his paramour over past the child's bedtime, or any of the foregoing, and that therefore it is in the child's best interests that mom's request for supervised visitation, or request for terms of visitation (such as attendance at AA, no cohabitation, or no inappropriate computer viewing) be granted.

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.