Sentences with phrase «unmarried cohabiting parents»
This was particularly true for married and unmarried cohabiting parents, among whom work schedules were cited more than any other barrier.
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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.
Despite official figures showing that 48 % of babies born last year were born to unmarried parents (60 % of whom were cohabiting), we still treat their children as less deserving of support when they face the shock and distress of parental loss.
About half of new parents under 30 are unmarried (although often in cohabiting relationships).
Access to children and cohabiting couples How the courts decide arrangements for access to children for separating unmarried parents.
She cautions that children in cohabiting households may face more difficulties growing up if their unmarried parents are at higher risk of breaking up.
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.
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).
However, the children in cohabiting households may face more difficulties growing up when their unmarried parents break up.
In spite of living in what are difficult economic circumstances, the differences in these parenting behaviors between single parents, cohabiting unmarried parents, and married parents are comparatively small.
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.
An article in this month's issue of Parents magazine explores the new «norm» of unmarried childbearing — the increasing number of younger Americans who are choosing to have and raise children in cohabiting unions instead of marriage.
Cohabiting couples who have a child in their twenties and then break up — and that's almost two - fifths of them in the first five years — often also go on to have another partner or partners.44 One study of young urban parents based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one partner already had a child from a previous relationship.