Sentences with phrase «cohabiting families»

Participants were 121 mothers and adolescents from cohabiting families.

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

Boys in cohabiting families have been found to be more likely to be involved in delinquent behavior, cheating, and have more school suspensions.

By 2008, when those changes are fully in effect, penalties would be eliminated for most cohabiting families (considering marriage) with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty line, [10] but substantial penalties (averaging $ 1,742) would still remain for 44 percent of all cohabiting couples, mostly those with incomes between $ 20,000 and $ 30,000 a year.

Other studies examining the mediating role of income include: Elizabeth Thomson, Thomas L. Hanson, and Sara S. McLanahan, «Family Structure and Child Well - Being: Economic Resources vs. Parental Behavior,» Social Forces 73 (1994): 221 — 42; Brown, «Family Structure and Child Well - Being» (see note 7); Osborne, McLanahan and Brooks - Gunn, «Young Children's Behavioral Problems in Married and Cohabiting Families» (see note 9).

Steven Friedlander, Daniel S. Weiss, and John Traylor, «Assessing the Influence of Maternal Depression on the Validity of the Child Behavior Checklist,» Journal of Abnormal Psychology 14 (1986): 123 — 33; Cynthia Osborne, Sara McLanahan, and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn, «Young Children's Behavioral Problems in Married and Cohabiting Families,» Working Paper 03 -09-FF (Princeton: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, September 2004).

Osborne, McLanahan, and Brooks - Gunn, «Young Children's Behavioral Problems in Married and Cohabiting Families» (see note 9); Carlson and Corcoran, «Family Structure and Children's Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes» (see note 28).

Children growing up in stable two - parent families show higher levels of cognitive ability than those in stably cohabiting families or those who experienced a change in living arrangements.

Abstract: Jane Waldfogel, Terry - Ann Craigie, and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn review recent studies that use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine why children who grow up in single - mother and cohabiting families fare worse than children born into married - couple households.

Osborne, McLanahan, and Brooks - Gunn, «Young Children's Behavioral Problems in Married and Cohabiting Families» (see note 9); Cynthia Osborne, «Is Marriage Protective for All Children?»

E. Mark Cummings and Patrick T. Davies, «Effects of Marital Conflict on Children: Recent Advances and Emerging Themes in Process - Oriented Research,» Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 43 (2002): 31 — 63; James L. Peterson and Nicholas Zill, «Marital Disruption, Parent - Child Relationship, and Behavioral Problems in Children,» Journal of Marriage and the Family 48 (1986): 295 — 307; Osborne, McLanahan, and Brooks - Gunn, «Young Children's Behavioral Problems in Married and Cohabiting Families» (see note 9).

Shirley Liu and Frank Heiland find that among couples unmarried at the time of the child's birth, marriage improved cognitive scores for children whose parents later married.41 Terry - Ann Craigie distinguishes among stable cohabiting unions, stable single - mother homes, and stable married - couple families, as well as unstable cohabiting families and unstable married - couple families.

Fragile families and child behavior problems Several studies using FFCWS data confirm that child behavior problems are elevated in both single - parent and cohabiting families.

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.

Arguments requiring legal intervention, which I expect would be significantly diminished from current volumes, may very well be confined to enforcing the caregiving and support responsibilities of former members of cohabiting families and sorting out property interests when the family members can not resolve those issues themselves.

It would be more likely to promote positive communication skills and minimize the negative fallout when one or more adults leave the cohabiting family.

«ensure that an adult's relationship with and obligations to a child did not end upon leaving the cohabiting family, and give children a critical continuity of care, regardless of how their family has changed.»

It would be more likely to encourage child - centred thinking, ensure that an adult's relationship with and obligations to a child did not end upon leaving the cohabiting family, and give children a critical continuity of care, regardless of how their family has changed.

Not exact matches

«Marriage Preparation and Cohabiting Couples: Information Report,» National Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Marriage and Family, Origins, September 16, 1999.

If we think of the family simply as individuals who consent to cohabit because such an arrangement meets their needs, we will never find reason to worry about assisted or collaborative reproduction.

Four years later, Al was completely estranged from his family and cohabiting with his companion, and Laura had been civilly married to a man she met through her younger child's school.

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 dysfuncFamily 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 dysfuncfamily 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.

Instead of putting the emphasis (and limited financial resources) on trying to prevent divorce, we as a society would be better off if we helped fragile families, whether married or cohabiting; poverty, joblessness, frequent cohabitation by single mothers (and 40 percent of births to single mothers are women who are cohabiting)-- this is what's creating conditions that lead to suffering among children.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

Adolescent well - being in cohabiting, married, and single parent families.

Nearly a quarter of couples who are cohabiting when they have children will actually go on to get married within five years of becoming parents, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies which is oddly little cited by the family breakdown lobby.

Well, older women who have their own resources, single women, cohabiting women, gay families, bisexual families, we are seeing blended families, divorced families.

Others live with single or cohabiting parents, in blended or polyamorous families, with grandparents or in multigenerational homes.

A quarter of married or cohabiting parents say the mother plays more of a disciplinarian role in their families, while 15 % say the father does, and 59 % say both share this role equally.

In what is perhaps the most comprehensive investigation of the implications of different kinds of family structures for the well - being of teenagers, Thomas Deleire and Ariel Kalil studied more than 11,000 adolescents raised in ten different kinds of households, including, for example, households with married parents, biological cohabiting parents, single mothers (divorced, always - single, and cohabiting considered separately), divorced single mothers in multi-generational households, and always - single mothers in multigenerational households.

One recent estimate from the National Survey of Family Growth found that kids in the mid-2000s born to cohabiting parents were more than twice as likely to see mom and dad break up by the age of 12 compared to kids born to married parents.

One reason we are seeing more instability in the American family, and one reason more people are cohabiting, is that the economic foundations of marriage have eroded in working class and poor communities.

A study in 2006 from the University of York (2) with 18,533 families looked at the parental relationship and postpartum depression and specifically focused on whether the mom was married, cohabiting or single.

What's more, cohabiting parents meet the Family Test, the criteria used by the state to streamline benefits and for purposes of policy.

An infographic showing married couple, cohabiting couple and lone parent families by the country of birth of the family reference person.

If the family claims to be informally separated, the school will want to see documentation that the couple did not cohabit (i.e., maintained separate residences), as no states permit a couple with an informal separation to continue living in the same house.

Besides the radically downsizing part, most tiny housers are normal people who like to raise families, cohabit with furry friends and of course, entertain.

If we were to exempt cohabiting siblings from tax, what about other family members such as parents and children?

In Ontario, married couples who are divorcing may apply for support under section 15.2 of the Divorce Act, while cohabiting spouses and married couples who are not seeking divorce may apply for spousal support under section 30 and 33 the Family Law Act.

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

P executed a will in February 2012 (the «February will») which left money to family, a partner with whom P had previously cohabited, and several charities.

At para 51 of their lead judgment, Lady Hale and Lord Walker set down the following principles to be applied in determining beneficial shares where a family home is held in the joint names of a cohabiting couple without the benefit of any express declaration of trust:

In recent years, we've also seen a marked increase in cohabiting couples and family businesses seeking advice.

Section 5 (3) of the FLA states that if, while the spouses are cohabiting, there is a risk that one spouse will «improvidently deplete his or her net family property,» the other spouse can apply for equalization.

Of these, 12.5 m were married couples, but cohabiting couple families grew by 29.7 % between 2004 and 2014.

Cohabitants are already able to make application under Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (I (PFD) A 1975) upon death of the former cohabitant provided that they can show they have cohabited for at least two years.

However, the definition of «spouse» under the section of the Family Law Act pertaining to spousal support, includes common law partners: «either of two persons who are not married to each other and have cohabited, (a) continuously for a period of not less than three years, or (b) in a relationship of some permanence, if they are the natural or adoptive parents of a child.

A family court could find that you are separated even if you and your spouse are continuing to live under the same roof and even if the Canada Revenue Agency has the view that you are still cohabiting together in a married or common - law relationship.

Our attorneys help divorcing couples, cohabiting couples, same - sex couples and mothers and fathers navigate through the complex family law system.

The family court could no longer offer protection from domestic abuse to cohabiting couples.