Sentences with phrase «cohabiting couples now»

Since the early 1990s, the majority of couples choose to live together before marriage, but fewer cohabiting couples now end up marrying and more of them separate without ever getting married [14].

More often these are cohabiting couples now, however, which reflects that they are the fastest growing family type and the fall in divorce numbers.

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In fact, same - sex marriage advocates can now take the rhetorical high ground: «At a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.»

(One could now add, for example, the data indicating the greater incidence of violence among cohabiting, as compared to married, couples.)

While a few of my middle - aged divorced friends are now in cohabiting relationships, I don't know many long - term couples who never married — just three, and of them only two have raised their children without «a piece of paper» or a ring on a finger.

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.

And now, 18 scholars, including W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and Dr. John Gottman of the Gottman Institute, are warning cohabiting couples of the negative impact kids face in these living arrangements.