Sentences with word «cohabiting»

For example, in Waite and Gallagher's «The Case for Marriage,» almost all of the studies they cite contrast married couples with cohabiting couples or single adults.

The struggles of cohabiting with a snorer are real, as are the bags under your eyes from a lack of sleep.

Less than a third of parents in cohabiting couples are between 35 and 44 years old, compared with four in ten parents in married couples.

This study consisted primarily of married couples but due to the high number of cohabiting couples in the sample marital satisfaction is referred to as relationship satisfaction.

«If you want to marry, be careful about cohabitation,» advises Scott Stanley, Ph.D., a research professor and social scientist who studies cohabiting relationships with his colleagues at the University of Denver.

There is a redress scheme for cohabiting couples who have been in a long - term relationship or who have had children.

«Couples who cohabit before marriage (and especially before an engagement or an otherwise clear commitment) tend to be less satisfied with their marriages — and more likely to divorce — than couples who do not.

North Carolina courts have held that express agreements between cohabiting partners as to division of property between them when the relationship ends are enforceable as long as the agreement is not based on sexual services.

By age 12, for example, children in cohabiting families are about twice as likely as those in married parent families to experience a parental breakup.

If their marriage lasts seven years, then their risk for divorce is the same as couples who didn't cohabit before marriage.

There is something of Percy's own acerbity, for example, in Lance's description of the American Sodom as a baboon colony where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.

Widow's, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension is paid for the lifetime of the pensioner, provided they do not cohabit with another person as a couple, remarry or enter into a new civil partnership.

As Sara McLanahan and Christopher Jencks explain in a recent article, the instability and complexity of cohabiting unions «have important consequences for children's home environment and the quality of the parenting they receive.

So, what's the problem if someone did assume from the media that there is no risk for cohabiting prior to marriage, in a pretty general, non-nuanced way?

Cohabiting women gave birth to somewhat more infants with low birthweight than did married women, but there was hardly any difference in the number of preterm infants or deaths.

In 2012, there were 5.9 m people cohabiting in the UK, double the 1996 figure.

New research — made available for the first time in this third edition of «Why Marriage Matters» — suggests that the rise of cohabiting households with children is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's lives in today's families.

These are just some of the many issues that arise when cohabiting after divorce mediation so for couples who are considering it, make sure you give some serious thought to how this will play out now and in the short, medium and long term futures.

A draft Convention provided that there could be no loss of the original parental ties in the event of adoption by the spouse or registered partner of the child's parent, indicating a growing recognition by Council of Europe States for adoptions between cohabiting partners.

Does cohabiting make couples less satisfied with their relationships?

The results for cohabiting mothers were more similar to those of married mothers than to those of single mothers.

Participants were 121 mothers and adolescents from cohabiting families.

To ignore the many people who cohabit without having children, but who none the less make sacrifices and become financially dependant on their partner as a consequence would be wrong.

«It seems to us that many people who think about testing their relationship by cohabiting already know, on some level, what the grade of that test may be; they are hoping that the answer looks better over time.»

David Popenoe, Rutgers University professor of sociology, believes profound differences exist between the relationship of married and that of unmarried cohabiting parents.

If the spouses cohabited before marriage, assets accumulated during that time are not marital property.

Single - parent families tend to have much lower incomes than do two - parent families, while cohabiting families fall in - between.

Stable cohabiting stepfamilies were associated with lower levels of well - being than stable married stepfamilies.

In some analyses, she adds enough control variables to reduce the association to zero, which is the basis of her asserting in the media that there is no risk for divorce based on cohabiting prior to marriage.

After some time, on your own you will be able to discern what kind of fish tank can support such species, species that can't cohabit together and much more in order to breed your species.

Here are a few of the items you may wish to give some thought to if you plan on cohabiting after divorce mediation:

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.

The rise in cohabitation is actually fuelling lone parenthood because cohabiting couples with children are far less stable than those who are married, says the CSJ.

As a society, we need to pay attention because there are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s.

Rather, my point is simply that the numbers don't indicate that cohabiting makes people more aggressive.

According to data from the National Health and Social Life Survey, 51 percent of married men reported they were extremely emotionally satisfied with sex, compared to 39 percent of cohabiting men and 36 percent of single men.

Most people don't consider it a long - term alternative to marriage since most cohabiting partners either split up or marry within a couple of years, but most couples find themselves living together at some point during their relationship.

Half of college - educated women who enter into cohabiting relationships have been romantically involved for more than a year (an average of 14 months) before moving in together.

The aim is to provide protection for a financially dependent member of the couple if a long - term cohabiting relationship ends either through death or separation.

He may or may not cohabit well in multi-pet homes.

Few cohabiting heteros live together for the long haul — most break up or marry in about five years, with many seeing it as a cost - saving measure (one apartment is cheaper than two) more than a statement of their commitment to each other.

Financial issues and relationship outcomes among cohabiting individuals.

Cohabiting only with their future spouse raised respondents» chances of being in a flourishing marriage.