Sentences with phrase «cohabitation over marriage»

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

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.

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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 %).

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.