Sentences with phrase «than married couples»

Because factors like location influence rates more than marital status, a single person in one state could pay less for insurance than a married couple in another state.

It does not have to mean you will have less of a retirement income than married couples, but you may have to consider other options to provide for your partner during retirement.

A family mediator sometimes can help, as well, to work through issues that involve more than the married couple alone.

When couples start to become more like roommates than a married couple, this may be a sign that they need couples counseling.

For instance, someone who makes $ 45,000 as a single person is in a higher tax bracket than a married couple whose combined income is $ 45,000.

Any single woman or man that decides to adopt will have a much harder time going through the process than a married couple.

All of these things can result in disproportionately higher costs per capita for singles than married couples.

Single people tend to spend a lot more on total housing expenses than married couples.

A 4 - person family pays around 40 % more than a married couple.

When couples become more like roommates than a married couple, this may indicate a need for counseling.

As the study notes, «Without the institutionalized rules of marriage, cohabiting couples may perceive threats to their relationship earlier than married couples.»

Cohabitators report more conflict, more violence, and lower levels of satisfaction and commitment in their relationships than married couples.

Unmarried couples have fewer rights than married couples, as they do not automatically agree to a legal contractual relationship under state law.

Tweaks to the tax code have mostly eliminated what some called a «marriage penalty» in which, under certain circumstances, single, unmarried filers paid less in taxes than a married couple with similar income, and some credits are only available to those who are married and filing jointly.

Hey guys, cohabitating couples are more happy than married couples.

In fact, they gave much more of their time, money and energy than married couples do (there are numerous studies that back this up; in fact, marriage has been called a «greedy institution»).

Same with lack of sleep — divorced and separated adults get less sleep than married couples, and about 250,000 traffic accidents a year are sleep related, 1,500 fatal, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

While cohabiting couples are given legal protection in several areas, they have significantly fewer rights overall than married couples.

«Couples who live together have less rights in law than married couples, so in addition to cohabitation disputes, we're seeing a growing number of couples looking to protect themselves and their assets through cohabitation agreements.

«We let our clients know that the key to success, financially and emotionally, is learning to operate as a divorced couple rather than a married couple.

Joyce and Sybil Burden, who share a home, argue that it is unfair for them to be taxed less favourably than married couples and civil partners.

In addition, cohabiting couples reported more physical aggression than married couples.

On average, she reports, cohabitors begin living together at an earlier age than marrying couples, but «when couples are compared by the age at which they move in together and start taking on the roles associated with marriage, there is no difference in divorce rates between couples that lived together before marriage and those that didn't.»

Cohabiting couples tend to be younger and have less college education than married couples, and cohabiting fathers tend to have lower incomes and are slightly less likely to be employed than married fathers (77 % compared to 90 %).19 Consequently, cohabiting couples may need more support to build economic stability, including job training and placement, as well as financial education to better manage less income and fewer resources.

Unstable Unions: One of the major sources of inequality between cohabiting and married parenthood is that cohabiting couples tend to split up at higher rates than married couples.

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.

In research he and his colleagues conducted, cohabiting couples reported lower levels of commitment, higher levels of disagreement, and lower levels of happiness than married couples.

In general, cohabiting couples tend to have less education and income than married couples, and it may be that those who do not marry are a particularly disadvantaged group (for example, we could not account for the job prospects of male partners).

The argument offered for this new plan is that it will (in certain cases) cause divorcing couples to pay more in total taxes than married couples, incentivizing the maintenance of intact families and producing additional tax revenue for the government from those who choose to divorce.

Recently, there have been some interesting studies that show that cohabiting couples — a hugely growing segment of society — often go to couples therapy earlier than married couples and, guess what, they feel more satisfied and committed by the experience.

Cohabiting couples tend to have less education and income than married couples, and it may be that those who do not marry are a particularly disadvantaged group.