Sentences with phrase «cohabiting parent families»

Wendy D. Manning, Susan Brown (2006) Children's Economic Well - Being in Married and Cohabiting Parent Families, Journal of Marriage and Family 68 (2), 345 - 362.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

Who commits «domestic violence» 2 (1) Domestic violence occurs when a person is subjected to an act or omission mentioned in subsection (1.1) by another person who (a) is cohabiting or has cohabited with him or her in a spousal, conjugal or intimate relationship; (b) has or had a family relationship with him or her, in which they have lived together; (c) has or had a family relationship with him or her, in which they have not lived together; (d) has or had a dating relationship with him or her, whether or not they have ever lived together; or (e) is the other biological or adoptive parent of his or her child, regardless of their marital status or whether they have ever lived together.

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.

In this definition, single - parent families may include cohabiting couples and do not include children living with married stepparents.

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.

The FFCWS studies add to a large body of earlier work that suggested that children who live with single or cohabiting parents fare worse as adolescents and young adults in terms of their educational outcomes, risk of teen birth, and attachment to school and the labor market than do children who grow up in married - couple families.

Shannon Cavanagh and Aletha C. Huston, «Family Instability and Children's Early Problem Behavior,» Social Forces 85, no. 1 (2006): 551 — 81; Cynthia Osborne, Wendy D. Manning, and Pamela J. Smock, «Married and Cohabiting Parents» Relationship Instability: A Focus on Race and Ethnicity,» Journal of Marriage and Family 69, no. 5 (2007): 1345 — 66; Osborne and McLanahan, «Partnership Instability and Child Well - Being» (see note 23).

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.

Using the 1999 National Survey of American Families, Brown found that only 1.5 percent of all children lived with two cohabiting parents at the time of the survey.17 Similarly, an analysis of the 1995 Adolescent Health Study (Add Health) revealed that less than one - half of 1 percent of adolescents aged sixteen to eighteen had spent their entire childhoods living with two continuously cohabiting biological parents.18

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).

As we discuss below, one recent study found that family stability trumps family structure as it pertains to early cognitive development even after controlling for economic and parental resources.26 It has been shown that children living in stable single - parent families (that is, families that were headed by a single parent throughout childhood) do better than those living in unstable two - parent families (that is, families that had two parents present initially but then experienced a change in family structure).27 Another study finds that children living in stable cohabiting homes (that is, families where two parents cohabit throughout the child's life) do just as well as children living with cohabiting parents who eventually marry.28 But other research challenges the conclusion that it is family stability that is crucial for child wellbeing One study, for instance, found that children who experience two or more family transitions do not have worse behavioral problems or cognitive test scores than children who experience only one or no family transitions.

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.

She finds no difference in children's vocabulary scores at age three between stable two - parent families (whether cohabiting or married) and stable single - mother families, but she finds that scores are lower in unstable families (whether cohabiting or married) than in stable families.42 Carey Cooper and co-authors also highlight the role that partnership instability plays in the link between family structure and child cognitive development, although these links are much weaker than those they find for behavioral development (discussed below).43

That is, some studies find that being raised by stable single or cohabiting parents seems to entail less risk than being raised by single or cohabiting parents when these family types are unstable.

And given that recent cohorts of children born to single and cohabiting parents are relatively young, an additional complication involves comparing outcomes across studies (that is, analysts can not yet estimate effects of family structure on adolescent and adult outcomes for cohorts such as FFCWS).

Furthermore, the number of cohabiting couple families has increased by 3 % and lone parent families has risen by 2 % over the same period.

Cynthia Osborne, Wendy Manning, and Pamela Smock, «Married and Cohabiting Parents» Relationship Stability: A Focus on Race and Ethnicity,» Journal of Marriage and Family 69 (2007): 1345 — 66; Cynthia Osborne and Sara S. McLanahan, «Partnership Instability and Child Wellbeing,» Journal of Marriage and Family 69 (2007): 1065 — 83.

Building on findings that the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) resulted in higher rates of marital stability among two - parent recipient families who participated in this initiative that provided financial incentives to welfare recipients who worked, this report documents MFIP's long - term effects on marriage and divorce among participants in the program's sample of nearly 2,500 two - parent families who were married or cohabiting at study entry.

A One - Parent Family Payment is not payable while a person is in a relationship and cohabiting with someone of the opposite or same sex.

Also, because cohabiting unions are more likely to dissolve than marriages, children in cohabiting unions are at a greater risk of spending time in a single - parent family, which significantly increases their poverty risk.

The likelihood of separation is higher among families with younger mothers, mothers with no qualifications, mothers with poor mental health, cohabiting parents, and when the birth had not been planned.

According to the 2013 National Marriage Project report, Knot Yet, children of cohabiting parents in their twenties are three times more likely to experience the dissolution of their family than children born to married parents.

Child Abuse: While children living with their unmarried biological mother and her live - in boyfriend face a higher risk of suffering child abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parents.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCW), meanwhile, finds that «nearly half of parents who are cohabiting at the time of their child's birth break up within five years, compared to only 20 percent of married parents.»

Compared to children of married parents, those with cohabiting parents are more likely to experience the breakup of their families, be exposed to «complex» family forms, live in poverty, suffer abuse, and have negative psychological and educational outcomes.

Every family member, including parents, spouses, siblings, children, and cohabiting partners is affected.

Cohabiting couples who have a child in their twenties and then break up — and that's almost two - fifths of them in the first five years — often also go on to have another partner or partners.44 One study of young urban parents based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one partner already had a child from a previous relationship.

According to a number of academic and bureaucratic (e.g., the Census Bureau) definitions, families do not need to include children (couples count); they do not need to include more than one adult and they do not need to include two people in a sexual relationship (single - parent families count); when they do include two adults, those adults do not need to be married (cohabiting couples count) and they do not need to include a man and a woman (same - sex couples count).

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

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

Myth — Children do better in cohabiting biological parent families than in cohabiting stepparent families.

Findings indicate no differences in child well - being for children living in cohabiting stepfamilies and cohabiting 2 - biological - parent families.»

A non-married couple with no common child was defined as a cohabiting two - parent family only if the two adult residents were of different sex and not siblings, over the age of 18 years and their age difference was < 16 years.

This study proposes that the family structures associated with risk — single - mother, step - parent, and cohabiting — influence early sexual debut due to family instability, including shifts in family structure and maternal dating, which can undermine parental control and transmit messages about the acceptability of nonmarital sex.

«Family type» classified into married two - parent families, cohabiting two - parent families and single - parent families.