Marital status

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A person's marital status describes their relationship with a significant other. Some common statuses are:

• single - a person who is unmarried, or unattached to someone.
• married- a couple who lives together and is bounded by a contract before the state or the church with legal age.
• separated - one of the couples are not living with them, not in the household.
• divorced
• widowed - a person whose spouse is dead.
• engaged - a person who has promised to give their hand in marriage to another person.
• annulled
• cohabitating - a couple that is living together, yet unmarried with each other.

The number of children may also be specified and, in this case, becomes synonymous with family status. For example: married with no children. Marital status is often a question on censuses, credit card applications, and many different polls. Marital status studied in combination with other factors reveals a marriage gap.

See also

• Vital record
• Visual markers of marital status