Sentences with phrase «cohabiting parents showed»

In this study, mortality of children living with cohabiting parents showed no difference from children of married parents.

Not exact matches

Despite official figures showing that 48 % of babies born last year were born to unmarried parents (60 % of whom were cohabiting), we still treat their children as less deserving of support when they face the shock and distress of parental loss.

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

In fact, if either of you have a child, you'll be considered as a common - law couple as soon as you cohabit; that is, unless you can show that neither of you acted as a parent to the others» child.

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.

Data from the Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect shows that children living with biological cohabiting parents are over four times as likely to be physically, sexually, and emotionally abused as those living with their own married parents.

This holds true for parents as well, as shown in Figures 14a and 14b, which indicate that cohabiting and single parents — both men and women — are generally less satisfied with their lives and more depressed than married parents.