Sentences with phrase «treat cohabiting couples»

Not exact matches

Cohabiting couples just don't get treated the same, nor do they see themselves as the same as married couples.

Society seems to understand marriage but not other arrangements, such as cohabiting partners, and because of that we treat married couples differently and they view themselves differently.

Cohabiting couples are treated differently in law to those that are married or in civil partnerships.

For the purposes of most social welfare claims (for example, Jobseeker's Allowance and Supplementary Welfare Allowance claims) cohabiting couples, people in civil partnerships and married couples are treated the same.

But, couples who cohabit prior to marriage for practical reasons and plan to someday marry all along fare better (and in some respects may fare better than those that didn't cohabit), especially because these couples have had practice confronting and working through life and relationship stressors.5 For example, they've most likely experienced conflict and had an opportunity to see how they treat each other in such situations.6