Sentences with phrase «than a married couple in»

I agree that in some cultures, single mothers are looked down upon by their own family and friends, but in today's day an age it has been proven that single mothers can do just as well if not better than some married couples in raising their children, thus making marriage not the only option.

Not exact matches

Be aware, however, that beginning in 2018, the total value of all your available deductions would need to be greater than the new, higher standard deductions under the legislation — i.e., $ 24,000 for married couples filing jointly — or you won't benefit from the deduction for charitable giving.

Canerday suggests that married couples with an estate valued at less than $ 20 million take a «wait and see» attitude regarding the value of their business or assets before a potential in life transfer.

The office also reported that 51 % of married couples paid less in taxes jointly than they would have if they were single, while 42 % paid more.»

In the past, the credit began to disappear for married couples who earned more than $ 110,000 and for single filers with AGI above $ 75,000.

That's about $ 4,000 in annual mortgage interest at today's low rates, and far less than their standard deduction as a married couple.

For example, in 2017 the phaseout of personal exemptions begins at $ 313,800 for married couples filing jointly, less than twice the $ 261, 500 threshold for single filers.

For instance, the credit began to disappear in 2017 for married couples who earned more than $ 110,000 and for single filers with AGI above $ 75,000.

The limitation on itemized deductions (sometimes called «Pease» after the Ohio congressman who proposed it) reduces deductions for high - income taxpayers by 3 percent of the amount by which their AGI exceeds a threshold — $ 261,500 in 2017 ($ 287,650 for heads of household, $ 313,800 for married couples filing jointly, and half of that for married couples filing separately)-- but not by more than 80 percent of deductions claimed.

Married couples filing jointly typically claim higher deductions, averaging more than $ 39,000 in 2014.

A nationally representative survey I commissioned in 2010 revealed that more than half of interfaith couples didn't discuss what religion they wanted to raise their children in before they got married.

Sexuality, then, is much bigger than just sex and what happens in a married couple's bedroom.

A poll of more than 2,000 British people by the legal firm Slater and Gordon found financial strains could drive one in ten married couples to split this year.

It has been known and experienced in the lives of countless happily married couples across the millennia, and perhaps nowhere more than in marriages lived under the banner of Christianity, whose Founder pronounced the intimacy of man and wife to be a blessed thing.

Although the middle - years couple has been married longer than those described earlier, and therefore are more «set in their ways,» the issues aroused and the approaches called for are much the same.

Nearly two - thirds (63 percent) say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, and less than 1 - in - 5 (18 percent) support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.

Instead, he caved in to the desires of a bigoted few (I'll give this church the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a few) and basically made the feelings of those few more important than the desire of this couple, to get married in their own church.

They are no different in their relationship than any hetero married couples.

For more than nine hundred years, the ancient tradition of the Dunmow Flitch has been honored in this corner of Essex, in which married couples appear before a counsel and jury to prove that they have honored their marital vows steadfastly and that they remain truly devoted to each other.

I would like to propose that married couples who engage in sexual intercourse with recourse to infertile periods do so in no less perfection than when intending pregnancy.

Other witnesses argued that, inasmuch as almost 25,000 married couples in France have been approved but wait an average of five years to be able to adopt because fewer than 5,000 adoptions take place each year, it is possible to provide every adoptable child with a father and a mother who will offer him or her the best chance of integrating into a new family.

Gary Smalley wrote in one of his books that «If a couple has been married for more than five years, any persistent disharmony in their marriage is usually attributable to the husband's lack of understanding and applying genuine love.»

Also, I hear that the rights of registered partners are about equal to married couples in Sweden, so no need to worry about that in your case: — RRB - My parents are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, so I'm a little more optimistic about marriage than you are.

Rather than divorce, couples stay married, remove the romantic / sexual aspect of their relationship, and live in the family home with similar on / off responsibilities.

And the Trumps» arrangement may even be more transparent than the couples who wed with all the faith and hope of having a loving, equal partnership only to be deceived later because hubs always knew he'd put his career above his wife's, or he knew he was gay but married anyway because it's what he thought he should do, or she's been hiding a huge amount of debt (as 1 in 5 of us do).

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on two landmark cases impacting same - sex couples this week and their ability to marry (I am loathe to call it same - sex marriage or gay marriage because it's just marriage, no different than anyone else's marriage; the people in it just happen to be of the same sex).

Even though there are more ways to be a married couple than ever before, including blended families and families in which the dad stays at home and mom's the breadwinner, we still tend to fall into gendered expectations when we heard the word «wife» — she's responsible for the home and kids, even if she works outside the home full time — and «husband» — isn't he the provider?

In the US, there are more than 1,100 laws benefiting married couples, and that's just at the federal level; many states offer perks and protections as well.

For many reasons, but here's one couples rarely think about nowadays as they search for a «soulmate» and marry for love (which, as historian Stephanie Coontz has famously written, destroyed the institution of marriage): the traits that you might want in a person to co-parent with may be different than the traits you want someone to spend your romantic life with.

It claims that married men and women who have «couple time» at least weekly were 3.5 times more likely to report being very happy in their marriages than those who struggled to spend time together.

The authors point to a lack of stability in cohabiting relationships as one of the culprits: cohabiting couples with a child are more than twice as likely to break up before their child turns 12 as their married counterparts.

Couples are marrying at older and older ages, official statistics show, and the drop in the likelihood of divorce suggests they are more committed to staying together than has been the case for married couples in recent dCouples are marrying at older and older ages, official statistics show, and the drop in the likelihood of divorce suggests they are more committed to staying together than has been the case for married couples in recent dcouples in recent decades.

«In this city, a married couple pays 13 percent of their annual income — higher than any other state in the natioIn this city, a married couple pays 13 percent of their annual income — higher than any other state in the natioin the nation.

I'm thinking this sentence should read: «Marriage equality proponents opponents will trumpet this study as proof that children raised by loving, committed, married same - sex couples will have more problems than those who are raised by both biological parents in a heterosexual household.»

With 11,518 same sex couples marrying in New York over the last year, New York experienced economic growth even greater than the IDC could have predicted.

A married couple from Staten Island is charged with swiping more than $ 767,000 in federal aid by lying that their primary home was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy, fed eral authorities said...

A # 25 billion pot could mean we could raise the income tax threshold to # 10,000 immediately, introduce a tax break for married couples (which is more pro-poor than the threshold change), accelerate Osborne's cuts in corporation tax, lower national insurance and end the counter-productive 50p tax band.

Carol Anastasio and Mimi Brown, who may have gotten more ink in the Daily News this past week than Barack Obama, were among the first couples married at the city clerk's office yesterday morning.

More than four million married couples and people in 15,000 civil partnerships will be eligible for the Marriage Allowance from 6 April, the beginning of the next financial year.

In all of those discussions, the ones who moved me most were parents who wanted nothing more than to see their gay and lesbian children share the same benefits, protections and love with their significant others as their siblings and other married couples do.

Research suggests that gay couples who marry or join in civil unions will stay together longer than those who don't, but marriage isn't the only way to create relationship stability and longevity, Garanzini said.

«Are married couples who met and dated in large cities typically more similar than [those] in rural areas?

Participants in the study included 144 married couples, all under the age of 40 and married for less than 5 years.

Schwartz and Han found that couples married between 2000 and 2004 in which both individuals had the same level of education were about one - third less likely to divorce than those in which husbands had more education than their wives.

Analyzing data from more than 8,000 married couples — with an average age in the early 60s — researchers found that the physical health and cognitive functioning of a person's spouse can significantly affect a person's own quality of life.

And in a world where it's more important than ever to be conscious about our choices when we choose to be part of a couple instead of just «checking it off the list» — which is what Faris admitted she did when she married Chris Pratt — it leads to a happier, more mindful life.

When researchers studied the genetic material of 825 white American couples, they found fewer differences in the DNA between married people than between two randomly selected individuals within the same race.

I've been drawn to a lot of healing things lately, healing sounds, healing frequencies, infrared sauna, meditation, breath work, really good deep tissue work, and, you know, I was speaking with my wife about a week ago and she commented on the fact that in the thirteen years that we've been married, when she met me, I was a bodybuilder and a spin instructor, she doesn't think she's ever seen me take any more than, perhaps, a couple of days off of an extremely hard charging life, in which I'm replying to literally hundreds of emails a day, squeezing in the type of exercise sessions that allow me to do masochistic things, volunteering, jetting around the globe, you name it.

When now - married couple Rudy Gehrman, DC, and Lynda Salerno - Gehrman first met in the early 2000s, it was a perfect match, in more than just the romantic sense.

In their 2006 study, Sandra Caron, Mary Logue and Nichole Proulx interviewed eight married couples where the wife was between 10 to 17 years older than the husband.