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/^t/Cohabiting couples maintain that their children are equally happy to those born to a traditional family since they are perfectly able to love them and bring them up successfully without any legal obligations. They claim that the times when the society was prejudiced against such out of wedlock children belong to the distant past. Today, the offspring of cohabiting parents even have the advantage over other children as the former do not have to witness long arguments or painful divorce cases of their parents, who can easily part before it comes to that. Nevertheless, only marriage can guarantee a suitable environment for raising offspring. Despite wide tolerance a child born out of wedlock is still likely to be stigmatised, which definitely has a negative impact on its psyche. A child reared by a married couple not only does not suffer from inferiority complexes but also is not threatened by poverty resulting from a sudden desertion by its mother or father. Statistics have proved that not legalised ralationships break up more often and easily than marriages. Consequently, children in these single-parent homes are more prone to be poor than those looked after by both parents or a divorcee getting a monthly maintenance guarenteed by the law. Besides, since in the future a child is bound to follow the behaviour of its parents, it is for its benefit and for the benefit of the country to be born to a married couple and thus copy the traditional patterns of a family. This, due to its far-reaching legal and moral consequences, may ensure the stability of whole communities and should be considered by potential parents.