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Cohabiting Parents' Experience of Relationships and Separation

This paper studies the cohabiting relationship, why people choose to cohabit, cohabiters' views on marriage, and the legal and parenting challenges cohabiting couples face after separation.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

• April 01, 2000

Instability in Fragile Families: The Role of Race-Ethnicity, Economics, and Relationship Quality

This study compares the prevalence of separation among married and cohabiting parents of young children, with attention paid to racial and economic differences in relationship stability.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

• August 14-17, 2004

Is There an Advantage to Being Born to Married Versus Cohabiting Parents? Differences in Child Behavior

This paper demonstrates that children born to married parents have fewer behavioural problems than those born to parents in a cohabiting relationship.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

• July 01, 2003

Hardship in Married and Cohabiting Parent Households: Do Cohabiting Couples Underinvest in Household Public Goods?

This study suggests that couples in cohabiting relationships experience greater economic hardship than those in married relationships due to the uncertainty about the duration of their.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

• September 01, 2003

It's All in the Past: Exploring the Repercussions of Parents' Early Conjugal and Parental Histories on the Family Life Course of their Children

This study looks at parental union status before and after the birth of a child in order to determine the likelihood of parental separation.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

• January 01, 2002

Marriage Following the Birth of a Child Among Cohabiting and Visiting Parents

This paper examines factors that affect the likelihood that unmarried parents will marry after the birth of their child.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

• March 01, 2004

The Implications of Parents' Conjugal Histories For Children

This paper examines the consequences of increasing levels of cohabitation, as opposed to marriage, as the basis for starting a family.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• ISUMA

• Autumn 2000

It’s All in the Past? Exploring the Repercussions of Parents’ Early Conjugal and Parental Histories on the Family Life Course of Their Children

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey on Children and Youth (NLSCY), this paper examines the impact the parents’ conjugal and parental behaviour (prior to the union in which the target child was born) has upon the child’s outcomes

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• Human Resources Development Canada

• January 01, 2002

“His” and “Her” Marriage Expectations: Determinants and Consequences

This study looks at unwed parents' expectation that they will marry and at the effect these expectations have on the likelihood that they will actually marry.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

• Revised May 2004

Perception Correction for Congress: New Study Indicates Poor Parents Want to Marry

In response to the "Fragile Families" Survey, which indicated that policies encouraging marriage were well-received among poor and unwed parents, this paper recommends that Members of Congress provide funding through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Act in order to promote marriage.

• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents

• The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder

• October 01, 2001