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- Adults who live together but do not marry-cohabiters-are more similar
to singles than to married couples in terms of physical health and
disability, emotional well-being and mental health, as well as assets and
earnings. Their children more closely resemble the children of single
people than the children of married people.
- Marriage appears to reduce the risk that children and adults will be
either perpetrators or victims of crime. Single and divorced women are
four to five times more likely to be victims of violent crime in any given
year than married women. Boys raised in single-parent homes are about twice
as likely (and boys raised in stepfamilies three times as likely) to have
committed a crime that leads to incarceration by the time they reach their
early thirties, even after controlling for factors such as race, mother's
education, neighborhood quality and cognitive ability.
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