Sentences with phrase «on unmarried»

The fact that the present research will focus on unmarried couples is novel, and should control for possible confounding factors related to relationship satisfaction scores, such as the stigma of divorce, structural barriers, and financial barriers.

Earnings Capacities and Earnings Levels of Unwed Fathers Several sources of data offer evidence on unmarried fathers» earnings capabilities.

«We have to see what the consequences are on unmarried couples but also on married couples», he said.

The adverse impact the Covenant would have on the sex life of an LGBT person (abstinence), is identical to the adverse impact it would have on an unmarried straight person (abstinence).

As part of a long - term national project — the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study, Mr. Johnson will focus on unmarried, low - income African - American men who don't live with their children.

true or false» Deceptive: there are other cases such as economic hardship, drug addiction, societal pressure and shame on unmarried pregnants, and so forth that are very compelling.

Not exact matches

It refers to the technicality that lets unmarried partners escape the gun ownership restrictions that are imposed on those who commit domestic violence.

That makes inflation even more painful for seniors, since 22 percent of elderly married couples and about 47 percent of elderly unmarried people count on Social Security benefits for 90 percent or more of their income.

People who gave us permission to use their Facebook data were on average younger (48 years vs. 57 years), more educated, more likely to be female (58 % vs. 50 %), and more likely to be unmarried (66 % vs. 71 %), with slightly lower scores on mental health and life satisfaction, significantly more self - reported friends (4.5 vs. 4.0), and less time spent interacting in person with real - world friends.

According to Financial Engines research, seven out of ten current retirees say Social Security benefits are a major source of their retirement income, while the Social Security Administration says about one in four married couples — and nearly half of unmarried individuals — rely on Social Security for 90 % or more of their income.

Moving on to problems of a later stage of adult life, let us first examine the role of the single adult — unmarried, widowed, or divorced.

Paul encourages singles to remain unmarried (1 Corinthians 7:6 - 9), and elaborates on the benefits of singleness (1 Corinthians 7:32 - 34).

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

Our point is that on the whole the nuclear mother - father team in intact first marriages does a better job of raising children than do single parents, stepparents or unmarried couples.

Yet a million or more women each year, automatically excluded from the realm of legality, are forced to seek out a private abortionist, to attempt abortion on themselves, or, if they are unmarried, to bear the child illegitimately.

(a) that bishops can bestow ordination for the diaconate only on married men, and it is implicit, following 1 Timothy 3:1 - 5, that bishops should be married; (b) that those who voluntarily choose not to marry, must live in a monastry in purity and continence; (c) that a bishop can not oppose the wish of an unmarried priest to marry, or if a priest is widowed, to marry again.

According to one of my boomer elders, one year (1965, or 1966, depending on the American locale) it was scandalous for an unmarried woman to have been known to have «done it,» and by the next year, it no longer was!

L.W. Brown observes, «The great stress on celibacy as a way of salvation, and the emphasis on the miraculous are not in themselves proof of a non-Catholic origin for the Acts, as even in the time of Aphrates only the unmarried could be baptized in Edessa.»

It wasn't fitting for an unmarried daughter to live on her own.

For an unmarried woman could easily be led into a disastrous marriage based on her poor reading of a young man's character ¯ which itself would mean a ruined life for her, although rarely for him.

The headline read as follows: «Massive Vatican shift on gay sex: Summit on «family life» says unmarried couples living together can be «positive», gays and divorcees must be welcomed and contraception «respected».»

We are likely to hear talk soon of legalizing polygamy, extending marriage privileges to the unmarried, and possibly even abolishing marriage, as the moderator of a conference on «Law and Nature» at Brown University recently proposed.

When this occurs, the follower of Jesus does not woodenly imitate everything Jesus did (remain unmarried, wear sandals, live «on the road» with friends).

the single parents couldn't agree on a last name, which is good in that at least the unmarried dad WANTS to be involved, at least in the child's name.

While the study's primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.

Unless a miracle happens, I know I'll be just another unmarried on the shelf older woman.

Married women, on the other hand, are not better off than unmarried women.»

The most widespread home - visiting program in the country today is one that focuses primarily on health: the Nurse - Family Partnership, which sends trained nurses into the homes of low - income expecting mothers, mostly unmarried teenagers.

The Department of Health could specify when and how the name and contact details of the father, married or unmarried, should be entered on the mother's care plan.

Either denial of registration is effective, so not using it on mothers and married fathers is against the interests of the child; or it is not effective, so applying it to unmarried fathers adds nothing to the safety of the child.

From the buzz around Kate Bolick's book Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own to the unfortunate language Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy used in writing the opinion legalizing same - sex marriage, of the unmarried being «condemned to live in loneliness,» the state of singles — and let's be honest, mostly single women — has been on a lot of people's minds.

Secondly, if the father wants to register against the mother's wishes, the court, whilst it can not deny PR to any parent on child welfare grounds (as it currently prevented from doing so except for unmarried fathers), the court can use a Section 8 order to limit the exercise of PR by any parent on child welfare grounds.

Even if unmarried fathers are registered on the birth certificate and get PR, their legal standing is still currently different from mothers and married fathers.

Mothers have a new right to insist that the unmarried father acknowledge his responsibilities to his child by registering on the birth certificate.

Currently the UK government tells unmarried mums it is «up to you» whether the child's father's name goes on the birth certificate, and provides minimal information to dads as to how to achieve this.

What the unmarried don't have, however, are the legal and financial perks and protections married couples, hetero and now same - sex, get — even if we are rising kids, too, or caring for elderly parents or a disabled sibling or lover (and the best person to follow and read on this is Bella DePaulo).

All this follows on quite naturally from the first substantial piece of fatherhood legislation introduced by this government: the awarding, in December 2003, of automatic Parental Responsibility to all unmarried fathers registered on their babies» birth certificates — a right which, until that time, had only been automatically conferred on married fathers.

It is likely that Australia's excellent record in joint birth registrations is due, in part, to its granting, way back on 1975, automatic Parental Responsibility to those unmarried fathers who signed their babies» birth certificates — and, shortly afterwards, requiring all unmarried fathers to sign (unless there were compelling reasons why this would be unwise).

These include, most importantly, a duty on maternity staff and registrars to engage with both parents on the subject of the father's birth registration — and are likely to draw all fathers (not only unmarried fathers) into ante-natal services on a formal basis (at the moment, no - one has to speak to the father or speak about him, or record his name).

The only unmarrieds who seem to escape much of society's wrath are the widowed, but even they are not above judgment — «It's been two years; shouldn't she move on already?»

But the worrisome part of Kennedy's wording is the belief that those who are unmarried, by choice or chance, don't have much going on — we're just «condemned to live in loneliness.»

To identify dads and have them pay child support, the US has pioneered a policy of «paternity establishment» in hospitals: officials approach unmarried fathers on maternity wards, and «encourage» them to put their names put on their babies» birth certificates.

In either case, though, unmarried fathers can still file for custody and visitation rights, even if they're not listed on the birth certificate.

As journalist Rebecca Traister notes in her new book on single women, in 2012 unmarried women were 23 percent of the electorate.

Under current law, an unmarried father is not named on the birth certificate unless he signs a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.

This puts lesbian parents on an equal footing with unmarried heterosexual parents, and -LSB-...]

There are step - families, single - parent families, families headed by two married or unmarried people, either of the opposite sex or the same sex, and the list goes on.

In some states, like Oklahoma, it is presumed that the mother has sole custody in cases where the parents were unmarried at the time of the child's birth and no father is on the birth certificate.

The unmarried mother's story about giving birth to a child diagnosed as terminally ill in the womb hit a major nerve on the Internet.

Has the increase of unmarried cohabiting fathers as well as multipartnered fertility (having children with multiple partners) altered men's impact on children's outcomes?