Sentences with phrase «cohabiting parents reported»

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Unmarried, cohabiting parents may be putting their kids at risk for a host of personal problems — at least according to a new report from the University of Virgina's National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values.

They have less education, earn less income, report poorer relationship quality, and experience more mental health problems.12 These considerations suggest that children living with cohabiting biological parents may be worse off, in some respects, than children living with two married biological parents.

Single mothers report more depression and psychological problems than married mothers and undoubtedly function less well as parents as a result.9 Cohabiting mothers have also been found to suffer more from depression than married mothers, which again would directly interfere with their ability to display good parenting skills.10 It is important to note that these differences may be the result of these mothers» living situation or may reflect pre-existing differences between the types of women who have children out of wedlock rather than in marriage (as we discuss in the section on selection below).11

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.

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.

Yet sociological data indicate, the report notes, that children born to a single parent or cohabiting couples on average suffer emotionally, academically and financially in comparison to their peers in homes where the mother and father are married to each other.

Mothers» reports of all types of father participation were lower among parents who do not live together than those cohabit, and reports of father participation were lowest among parents who are not in any type of romantic relationship.