Sentences with phrase «less than their married counterparts»

Studies also show that because of stress, single guys live on average five years less than their married counterparts.

Not exact matches

Like single mothers, single fathers are typically less educated and less well - off than their married counterparts.

He went on to state that single moms possess less than stellar parenting skills and lack the financial wherewithal to adequately care for their children compared to their married counterparts.

A recent ING U.S. study found that divorced people overall feel less financially prepared for retirement than their married counterparts.

Married drivers are less likely to crash than their single counterparts.

There are various theories about why this might be the case; some sources say that married drivers tend to drive less than their single counterparts.

Husbands and wives bickering over the breakfast table may find it hard to believe, but mounting evidence suggests that married couples are less likely to develop dementia or to get other serious conditions such as cancer and heart disease than their single counterparts [source: Parker - Pope].

Regardless of the reason, married people will pay less in vehicle insurance than their unmarried counterparts.

Married people will also pay less for their vehicle insurance coverage than any unmarried counterparts.

The picture is less clear for women; parenthood has been linked to greater happiness in some studies and to less happiness in other studies, likely because women tend to engage in child rearing tasks that center upon both routine and play, while men tend to spend a greater proportion of their caregiving time on play.2 In addition, married parents tend to have relatively greater happiness than their non-married counterparts given the increased social support available to married adults, lower financial strain, and greater help with chores and housework.

These differences undoubtedly contribute to the fact that less - educated cohabitors are more likely to break up before ever entering marriage, and more likely to divorce if they do marry, than their better - educated counterparts.

And middle - aged married women work 131 hours less than their single counterparts, unless they are childless.

While the study authors did not consider these findings statistically significant, married women between 28 and 30 years old, on the other hand, earn $ 1,349 less per year in individual income compared to their single counterparts, while married women between 44 and 46 years old make $ 1,465 less than single women of the same ages.

When compared to married partners, coresidential daters tend to experience less happiness and more conflict than their married counterparts (Brown & Booth, 1996).

Fact: «Married mothers» lives are marked by more housework and more marital conflict but less depression than their childless counterparts.

The result is that students coming from divorced households will pay nearly 60 % of their own college costs, while their counterparts from homes with married parents will pay for less than a quarter of the same educational expenses.

Mothers» preferences related to father participation vary substantially by father's co-residence and relationship status; indeed unmarried mothers and mothers who do not live with their child's father are less likely to want father participation than their married and co-resident counterparts.