Sentences with phrase «on cohabiting parents»

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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.

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.

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.

On the economic front, kids in cohabiting households tend to do better than kids in a single parent house, in part because they have access to two adults who can bring an income or resources into the home.

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.

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).

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).

Cohabiting mothers might also be expected to have poorer parenting skills than married mothers, but are likely to have better parenting skills on average than single mothers do.

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).

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.

Cynthia Osborne, Wendy Manning, and Pamela Smock, «Married and Cohabiting Parents» Relationship Stability: A Focus on Race and Ethnicity,» Journal of Marriage and Family 69 (2007): 1345 — 66; Cynthia Osborne and Sara S. McLanahan, «Partnership Instability and Child Wellbeing,» Journal of Marriage and Family 69 (2007): 1065 — 83.

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.

A study found married parents devote more of their financial resources to childrearing and education than do cohabiting parents, whereas cohabiting parents spent a larger percentage of their income on alcohol and tobacco.

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.

The cohabitants were also more than three times more likely than married parents to move on to a cohabiting or marital relationship with a new partner if their relationship did break up.9 Researchers paint a sorry picture of the effect these disruptions have; children suffer emotionally, academically, and financially when they are thrown onto this kind of relationship carousel.10

Cohabiting couples who have a child in their twenties and then break up — and that's almost two - fifths of them in the first five years — often also go on to have another partner or partners.44 One study of young urban parents based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one partner already had a child from a previous relationship.