User:Megrapp/sandbox

Negative Effects
A University of Chicago researcher Linda Waite Professor in Sociology, states " 16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their partners became physical during the past year, while only 5 percent of married women had similar experiences." Most cohabiting couples have a faithful relationship but Waite's surveys also showed that 20 percent of cohabiting women reported they had secondary sex partners, compared to only 4 percent of married women reported the

The parenting role of cohabiting partners could have a negative effect on the child. The partner that is not the parent, usually the father, does not have "explicit legal, financial, supervisory or custodial rights or responsibilities regarding the children of his partner" says Waite. This can cause an unstable living arrangement for the child and make the child to act out in a certain way because the mother or father's partner is "not their real parent."

For married couples the percentage of the relationship ending after 5 years is 20%, for cohabitators the percentage is 49%. After 10 years the percentage for the relationship to end is 33% for married couples and 62% for cohabitators.

Couples who cohabit are more likely to have a poorer financial picture because they one partner is less likely to support the other partner financially because they are not legally married that the one partner is obligated to. There has been questioning about people who cohabit living a shorter life because their partner is not going to remind them about doctor's appointments or speak up about unhealthy behaviors or risks. Also unmarried men and women are more likely to commit a crime compared to married. Male cohabitators are less likely to be apart of the childcare but half the time they are responsible for child abuse. Lastly, couples who cohabit are more likely to cheat on their partner, which leads to a high percentage of getting a sexual transmitted disease.

Positive Effects
Senate GOP leader Trent Lott decided to pull a bill that was going to get rid of "the marriage penalty," "which in the tax code reflects the fact that married couples who both work for wages frequently pay more in taxes then if they earned the same amount of income but weren't married. And the more equal the incomes of the couple, the steeper the marriage tax penalty." The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), is a wage supplement for low-income workers, but the problem is the EITIC is not for married couples because they have to combine their wages, which again leads to "the marriage penalty." If couples do not get married then their wages do not have to combine and the EITIC in a way is "paying for" low-income couples not to marry. In other words low-income couples chose not to marry because they need to combine their wages which leads to the EITIC taking more of their income.

Americas
During the year of 1999, cohabitors among those aged 35 to 54, those who are divorced or separated, black and Hispanic men, and most especially among those with children.

the 2009 American Community Survey conducted by the Census Bureau, the proportion of 30-to-44-year-olds living together has almost doubled since 1999, from 4% to 7%. Fifty-eight percent of women aged 19 to 44 had ever cohabited in data collected in 2006-08, while in 1987 only 33% had. Cohabitation is much more prevalent among those with less education. “Among women ages 19 to 44, 73% of those without a high school education have ever cohabited, compared with about half of women with some college (52%) or a college degree (47%),” note the Pew study’s authors, Richard Fry and D’Vera Cohn.

Hungary
The literature on second demographic transition argues as well that highly educated women are more prone to engage in cohabitation, although the reasons are different: they are less concerned with respecting the societal norms. Some scholars argued that cohabitation is very similar to being single in the sense of not giving up independence and personal autonomy.

In Hungary, cohabitation was an uncommon phenomenon until the late 1980s and it was largely confined to the divorced or widowed individuals. Among the ethnic groups, Gypsy/Rroma tended to have higher rates of cohabitation, mainly due to their reluctance to register their marriages officially. Since the 1980s, cohabitation became much more frequent among all ethnic groups and it has been argued to have strongly influenced the decline in fertility.