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...partner becomes more committed than the other and the more committed one becomes used. This happens when one partner has a different interpretation of the meaning of cohabiting than the other, while in a marriage, there are usually more defined expectations. Society may be accepting this behavior more openly but when it is societie’s child then it is no longer accepted. Cohabiting couples have to deal with parents or relatives that disapprove of their living arrangement. Some parents cut off communication and or economic support for their child. By cutting them off economically they have to support themselves and cohabiting couples do not benefit from their partners health insurance, social security, or retirement benefits like spouses would. Cohabiting couples have the lowest average level of wealth, compared to single mother families and dual parent homes and single father families. Un-like single parent families, they have two people bringing home money so less is expected from them which is a big problem epically if there are children involved. If you compare couples who lived together before they were married to couples that had not. Couples that lived together experience lower marital quality, higher marital conflict, and more marital problems. They also have one third higher risk of divorcing after ten years of marriage. The reason that they have a bigger risk of divorce is that people who tend to cohabitate are people who will break social norms and live together before marriage. So once they marry they will have no problem breaking another social norm and divorce. Cohabiting couples also have lower quality relationships because cohabitation is incomplete. Patrick J. Hession feels that, “Non-Marital unions are not yet governed by formal laws. Who had custody of the children when they separate?” The worst part of cohabiting couples is that of abuse. 65% of abused partners were in live-in situations, while 19% were in traditional marriages. This is found because cohabiting couples are often younger and less educated. If a couple has definite plans to marry they are more likely to report violence tha...