Sentences with phrase «vulnerable cohabitants»

If the scheme is intended to give safety net protection to vulnerable cohabitants then it would fail if it required couples to have first gone through a marriage / civil partnership type ceremony or registration.

People wouldn't do it for many of the same reasons that they don't marry and it would do nothing to protect vulnerable cohabitants from unscrupulous partners who deliberately choose not to opt in precisely because they don't want to take on responsibility for their partner and children.