Sentences with word «cohabitors»

Let's forget the studies pointing out the booze (cohabitors drink more), weight (they're heavier) and happiness (they're not quite as happy as married couples but they aren't more miserable, either), because those aren't the issues.

On average, she reports, cohabitors begin living together at an earlier age than marrying couples, but «when couples are compared by the age at which they move in together and start taking on the roles associated with marriage, there is no difference in divorce rates between couples that lived together before marriage and those that didn't.»

We identified factors that differentiate cohabitors from daters and tested whether these factors explained the difference in partner abuse.

CCF PRESS ADVISORY: Attention Cohabitors: Having a baby before you marry no longer raises your risk of divorce

Historical trends in the marital intentions of one - time and serial cohabitors.

Cohabitors need from the church a push to the altar not to some ephemeral subjective commitment.

He suspects our DNA may accumulate quite a bit of harmless microbial detritus, making it difficult to separate the traces of pathogens from the background noise of innocuous cohabitors.

We compared partner abuse by cohabitors and daters among 21 - year - olds.

As controls in regression models predicting abuse, none of these factors individually explained the difference in partner abuse between cohabitors and daters.

By contrast, my qualitative research (with Amanda Miller), based on over 150 interviews with cohabitors, found that the majority of individuals with less than a college degree had moved in with their partners within six months of starting their romantic relationship.

Some current projects explore the tempo of relationship progression, the processes underlying entrance into cohabiting unions and marriage, and the meanings cohabitors assign to their unions.

«The Specter of Divorce: Views from Working - and Middle - Class Cohabitors.»

Annette is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), a national organization composed of the nation's top attorneys who are experts in the field of matrimonial law, including divorce, prenuptial agreements, legal separation, annulment, custody, property valuation, support and the rights of unmarried cohabitors.

The effect of union type on psychological well - being: depression among cohabitors versus marrieds.

Table 2 showed that husbands and male cohabitors scored higher on both PRQ and NRQ than do wives and cohabiting women.

Relational Sacrifices about Intimate Behavior and Relationship Quality for Expectant Cohabitors.

Let's forget the studies pointing out the booze (cohabitors drink more), weight (they're heavier) and happiness (they're not quite as happy as married couples but they aren't more miserable, either), because those aren't the issues.

I have a few friends, long - time cohabitors, who have children together.

On average, she reports, cohabitors begin living together at an earlier age than couples who marry directly.

We found that premarital cohabitation was associated with a greater risk of divorce even after the effects of four sociodemographic factors that differentiate cohabitors — the presence of stepchildren, marital status of first spouse, parental divorce, and age heterogamy — were specified in a model of marital dissolution.

Other studies of living together show that after about a year and a half, the cohabitors either marry or break up.

And they end up better off than most singles and cohabitors.

A number of recent studies have argued that this «cohabitation effect» reflects the fact that cohabitors are a select group in ways that predispose them to divorce.

Cohabitors» reasons for living together, satisfaction with sacrifices, and relationship quality.

Hitting Without a License: Testing Explanations for Differences in Partner Abuse between Young Adult Daters and Cohabitors

Cohabitors were significantly more likely than daters to perform abusive behaviors.

We know, for example, that there is a correlation between cohabitation and higher rates of domestic violence, but it would be dangerous to conclude that a causal relation exists and recommend that cohabitors should marry.

Cohabitors» Reasons for Living Together, Satisfaction with Sacrifices, and Relationship Quality.