Non-marital cohabiting couples spend more money on themselves and less on their children than do married couples, a recent US study has found.Though the chattering classes generally view it as a fully acceptable substitute for marriage, non-marital cohabitation offers little to children. For cohabiting parents typically part with so much of their money at tobacco and liquor stores that they have little left to spend on their children.Two US economists, Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil, have examin…
