Sentences with phrase «own cohabiting parents»

Married couples tend to be more stable and more financially sound, according to some studies, while cohabiting parents are more likely to split up.

Cohabiting parents?

The pressure they felt to tie the knot supposedly came from their kids (and I suddenly feel a great need to ask my long - time cohabiting parent friends how — or if — they have dealt with that even though they clearly have resisted that pressure).

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

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.

Others live with single or cohabiting parents, in blended or polyamorous families, with grandparents or in multigenerational homes.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

This applies both to children whose parents are divorced but still engaged in conflict as well as cohabiting parents.

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.

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

Unresolved questions remain about children born to cohabiting parents who later marry.

Correspondingly, do children benefit when their cohabiting parents get married?

As we discuss below, one recent study found that family stability trumps family structure as it pertains to early cognitive development even after controlling for economic and parental resources.26 It has been shown that children living in stable single - parent families (that is, families that were headed by a single parent throughout childhood) do better than those living in unstable two - parent families (that is, families that had two parents present initially but then experienced a change in family structure).27 Another study finds that children living in stable cohabiting homes (that is, families where two parents cohabit throughout the child's life) do just as well as children living with cohabiting parents who eventually marry.28 But other research challenges the conclusion that it is family stability that is crucial for child wellbeing One study, for instance, found that children who experience two or more family transitions do not have worse behavioral problems or cognitive test scores than children who experience only one or no family transitions.

That is, some studies find that being raised by stable single or cohabiting parents seems to entail less risk than being raised by single or cohabiting parents when these family types are unstable.

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).

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.

Cohabiting parents who did not marry at all had a break - up rate twice as high as those who got married.

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

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.

The likelihood of separation is higher among families with younger mothers, mothers with no qualifications, mothers with poor mental health, cohabiting parents, and when the birth had not been planned.

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.

Therefore, children of married parents tend to suffer less poverty and material hardship than children of single or cohabiting parents (U.S. Census Bureau 2000; Smock 2000).

Child Abuse: While children living with their unmarried biological mother and her live - in boyfriend face a higher risk of suffering child abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parents.

[11] A study in Norway found that the breakup rate for cohabiting parents was two - and - a-half times higher than that for married couples.

Data from the Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect shows that children living with biological cohabiting parents are over four times as likely to be physically, sexually, and emotionally abused as those living with their own married parents.

In fact, children born to married parents are 44 percent less likely to see their parents break up than are children born to cohabiting parents in this Scandinavian country.

Compared to children of married parents, those with cohabiting parents are more likely to experience the breakup of their families, be exposed to «complex» family forms, live in poverty, suffer abuse, and have negative psychological and educational outcomes.

Wendy D. Manning, Susan Brown (2006) Children's Economic Well - Being in Married and Cohabiting Parent Families, Journal of Marriage and Family 68 (2), 345 - 362.

Fact: «Although children living with married rather than cohabiting parents fare better in terms of material well - being, this advantage is accounted for by race and ethnic group and parents» education... the initial marriage advantage for children living with two biological parents (cohabiting two biologicals vs. married two biological) and stepparents (cohabiting stepparents vs. married stepparents) are explained by the covariates included in the models.

In this study, mortality of children living with cohabiting parents showed no difference from children of married parents.

This was particularly true for married and unmarried cohabiting parents, among whom work schedules were cited more than any other barrier.

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.

They must develop programs for divorced men and women, single parents and cohabiting couples.

Because needy children deserve support no matter who raises them, the state, the business community and the law should support them wherever they are located — whether with single, married, divorced, cohabiting, same - sex or foster parents.

Datasets also commonly fail to identify other parent - child relationships across households: for example, parents with children residing part - time elsewhere; partners who parent children together, while not cohabiting full - time; and non-resident step - parents.

Adolescent well - being in cohabiting, married, and single parent families.

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.

• Among cohabiting couples with newborns, both parents» beliefs that father - involvement is important plus fathers» actual involvement (measured here by regular nappy - changing) were found to predict relationship stability (Hohmann - Marriott, 2006).

Married parents are also more egalitarian than cohabiting couples.

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.