Briefing Paper: Unmarried Couples with Children

This article is about Unmarried Couples with Children; why don't they marry, and how can policy makers promote more stable relationships by Paula England and Kathryn Edin. Some studies have shown that when unmarried couples there is a high chance that they will marry sometime in the future and an even higher percentage of fathers expected to marry the mother of the child. But, in reality, most of these couples did not marry. The rest of this article answers why couples do not marry, why couples do not use contraception, why couples break up, as well as policy implications.


This article is about how being an unmarried couple and living together is better tax-wise than being married and living together.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/living-together-book/chapter4-6.html


This newspaper article is about how more and more unmarried couples are having babies. They are unmarried but both parents are present. There has been a substantial increase over a short period of time of unmarried couples having children together, but no reasons can be provided.

http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/13/more-unwed-couples-are-having-babies/


This article is about how Christians view cohabitation between unmarried couples and the resulting in childbearing. It is assumed that with the constant growth of unmarried cohabitation over the year, that in the near future it will be more common than marriage.  "The change in social attitudes about unmarried cohabitation may be due in large part to a change in perception of what it takes to have a successful marriage."

http://christianfamilylawassociation.org/unmarried_cohabitation 


This article is about initiatives in reducing unwed childbearing. Several factors are listed as to why this is important.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2006/04/childrenfamilies-kane