Letters: Readers on the pros and cons of the government’s plan to give cohabiting partners marriage-like rights ...

WASHINGTON — A new study found that in 11 countries across the globe, cohabiting couples have more doubts about their relationship lasting and give less importance to their relationship than married ...

The government’s worthy attempt to give cohabiting partners marriage-like rights fails to protect women who have chosen financial independence, says Ruth Deech ...

A “Majority of Americans Now Believe in Cohabitation.” That’s the headline and conclusion from a national survey conducted by the Barna Group. 1 They surveyed 1,097 adults in April 2016, finding that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More Americans 50 years and older are copying younger generations and eschewing marriage, opting instead to live with their partners, according to new research. In 2016 about 18 ...

Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have identified significant differences in mortality among widows and widowers from cohabiting versus married relationships, depending on the deceased ...

W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the report "Why Marriage Matters: 30 Conclusions from the Social Sciences." August ...

Multiracial children's experiences of family instability differ significantly depending on whether their parents were married when the child was born, a new international study published in the ...

As more and more U.S. couples decide to have children without first getting married, a group of 18 family scholars is sounding an alarm about the impact this may have on those children. In a new ...

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