Sentences with phrase «of cohabiting parents»

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.

«The role of father involvement in the union transitions of cohabiting parents.»

By the time the child is age five, about half of cohabiting parents will have split up.

Not exact matches

There are worrying social impacts downstream as a result of these factors: a lowered marriage rate, more adult children cohabiting with their parents, a reduction in the birthrate, and young people holding off on major life events such as starting relationships or home ownership.

In some ways, single parents are poised to raise kids exactly right — they're able to get their emotional and sexual needs met outside of a romantic love - based co-parenting situation, and often outside of a cohabiting situation, while also focusing on caring for their kids (not unlike the parenting marriage we propose in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels).

Yes, according to Merle Weiner, a law professor at the University of Oregon, who proposes that rather than focus on marriage, the state should create a parent - partner status that would legally bind parents — married, cohabiting, living apart, romantic partners or not — with certain mandatory obligations in order to give their children what they need to thrive.

While many of those parents are single, about 4 percent of children live with two cohabiting parents.

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.

And because cohabiting unions are much less stable than marriages, the vast majority of the children born to cohabiting couples will see their parents break up by the time they turn 15.

Mothers also tend to take on more household chores and responsibilities; 41 % of married or cohabiting parents say this is the case in their households, compared with just 8 % who say the father does more.

Similarly, when it comes to taking care of sick children, 55 % of married or cohabiting parents say the mother does more than the father; just 4 % say the father does more, and 41 % say both parents share this equally.

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.

According to research, by a child's seventh birthday, 31 per cent of the couples who were cohabiting when their child was nine months old had separated, compared to only 12 per cent of married parents.

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.

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.

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.

What's more, cohabiting parents meet the Family Test, the criteria used by the state to streamline benefits and for purposes of policy.

About half of new parents under 30 are unmarried (although often in cohabiting relationships).

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

Common - law partner A person of the opposite or the same sex who has either cohabited with you for at least one year in a conjugal relationship or is the parent of your child.

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.

While the parents are married and cohabiting, kangoken is part of shinken and is exercised jointly by both parents.

All of this is, of course, at a time when cohabitation is on the increase and the number of children born to cohabiting parents is rocketing.

In those provisions, the term «spouse» includes cohabiting couples who have lived together for a period of at least three years or cohabiting biological or adoptive parents (s. 29).

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.

Pregnancies from casual / short - term relationships generally do not lead to an obligation to support the other parent per se whereas an obligation of child support can increase or even create a spousal support obligation if the parties have cohabited for a long time before separation.

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.

A draft Convention provided that there could be no loss of the original parental ties in the event of adoption by the spouse or registered partner of the child's parent, indicating a growing recognition by Council of Europe States for adoptions between cohabiting partners.

For the half of them whose parents are cohabiting, the likelihood of a breakup before they are even five years old is three times what it is with married parents.

She cautions that children in cohabiting households may face more difficulties growing up if their unmarried parents are at higher risk of breaking up.

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).

Therefore, although growing up with single or cohabiting parents rather than with married parents is linked with less desirable outcomes for children and youth, comparisons of the size of such effects, across outcomes, ages, and cohorts, is not possible.

The majority of parents were stably married (56.6 %), and approximately a tenth were either continuously cohabiting with the same partner (12.7 %) or continuously single (7.8 %).

If one of the parents starts cohabiting with a new partner, the court might view the new living arrangement as justification for a custody change.

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).

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.

Rapid changes in the characteristics of parents over time also could result in different selection biases in terms of which parents (both mothers and fathers) have children when married or when unmarried (for example, as the pool of parents having mediators), instability appears to be most important (with the worst outcomes found for children of unstable single or unstable cohabiting mothers).

The role of selection A common challenge in research in this area is that parents who are single or cohabiting may have attributes (both observed and unobserved) that differ from those of married parents and that also foster adverse child and adolescent outcomes.

When a parent remarries or cohabits with another person, that person's income is not part of the child support calculation under the Melson formula, but it is relevant to the primary support level of the paying parent.

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

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).

These studies have consistently noted the salience of the parental relationship in determining parents» paternity establishment decisions, with cohabiting or dating parents far more likely to establish paternity in - hospital than those with no relationship.3 In addition, these studies have helped form a portrait of the father characteristics most associated with the failure to establish paternity in - hospital; among others, these include low education, unemployment, children from previous relationships, and a lack of financial and emotional support during the pregnancy.4

Formal support arrangements (i.e. child support orders) are most common among parents with no romantic relationship, whereas the vast majority of parents who are cohabiting or dating rely on informal support arrangements.

Covariates capturing parent characteristics included: (1) marital status using a dichotomised indicator of whether they were married / cohabiting or not; (2) employment status categorised into a binary indicator distinguishing whether the parent was in paid employment or not; and (3) presences of siblings whose youngest child was younger than 16.

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

The majority — 55 % — of dependent children from «mixed» ethnic backgrounds are living with both their biological parents, married or cohabiting.