Sentences with phrase «time cohabiting parent»

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).

Not exact matches

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.

And because cohabiting unions are much less stable than marriages, the vast majority of the children born to cohabiting couples will see their parents break up by the time they turn 15.

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.

Pregnancies from casual / short - term relationships generally do not lead to an obligation to support the other parent per se whereas an obligation of child support can increase or even create a spousal support obligation if the parties have cohabited for a long time before separation.

For the half of them whose parents are cohabiting, the likelihood of a breakup before they are even five years old is three times what it is with married parents.

Shirley Liu and Frank Heiland find that among couples unmarried at the time of the child's birth, marriage improved cognitive scores for children whose parents later married.41 Terry - Ann Craigie distinguishes among stable cohabiting unions, stable single - mother homes, and stable married - couple families, as well as unstable cohabiting families and unstable married - couple families.

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

Rapid changes in the characteristics of parents over time also could result in different selection biases in terms of which parents (both mothers and fathers) have children when married or when unmarried (for example, as the pool of parents having mediators), instability appears to be most important (with the worst outcomes found for children of unstable single or unstable cohabiting mothers).

Also, because cohabiting unions are more likely to dissolve than marriages, children in cohabiting unions are at a greater risk of spending time in a single - parent family, which significantly increases their poverty risk.

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.

[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.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCW), meanwhile, finds that «nearly half of parents who are cohabiting at the time of their child's birth break up within five years, compared to only 20 percent of married parents.»

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

The resulting stress trajectories may include the early onset of puberty (Ge et al. 2001), adolescent stressful life events and circumstances (Wickrama et al. 2015b), romantic relationship problems (Barr et al. 2016), and an off - time (early or late) transition to adulthood, including the acquisition of adult roles such as becoming a parent, cohabiting, and dropping out of school (Lee 2015; Wickrama et al. 2015a, 2005).