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NEWS ABOUT: cohabitation

cohabitation stories: 6 news summaries


 Miley Not Ready 
 for Live-In Love 

Teen is too easily annoyed to live with older boyfriend

Mar 11, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Miley Cyrus isn’t ready to move in with her 20-year-old boyfriend—not because she’s a mere 16 years old, but because she gets “annoyed really easily,” the New York Post reports. The Disney starlet told a Detroit radio station, “Just like, everything has to, like,... More »

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Disney • celebrity • Miley Cyrus • teen sex • cohabitation • Justin Gaston

 Peterson Fiancee, 
 After Bolting, 
 Moves Back In 

Father vows to break up daughter, murder suspect

Feb 11, 09 8:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Drew Peterson’s latest galpal—who claimed last week their engagement was nothing more than a publicity stunt—has moved back in with the suspected wife killer, the Joliet Herald News reports. The move comes less than two weeks after 24-year-old Christina Raines moved out of Peterson’s house with... More »

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murder • publicity stunt • Illinois • engagement • suspect • Stacy Peterson • Drew Peterson • cohabitation • Christina Raines • fiancee

OPINION

 While We're At It, 
 Give Marriage a Bailout 

Recession, laws making it more expensive, so make nuptials easier

Feb 3, 09 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Between the recession and various legal knots, it’s no wonder so many Americans are eschewing marriage, Mark Penn writes in the Wall Street Journal. Either go with the bailout flow and revamp tax codes and the like to make marriage easier and less financially constrictive, or use similar tactics... More »

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marriage • America • tax relief • Mark Penn • cohabitation • domestic partnership • trend • financial crisis

 Live-In Lovers
 Hit Record Number

6.4M unmarried hetero couples live together

Jul 29, 08 7:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The number of unmarried heterosexual couples living together reached a record 6.4 million in 2007, or 10% of all hetero couples who share a home, according to the Census Bureau. It's a snapshot of the changing American family. Some 2.5 million of the couples—45.5%—are raising... More »

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marriage • Census Bureau • University of Chicago • University of Michigan • cohabitation • Population Studies Center • Pamela Smock • heterosexual couples • Linda Waite

Army Allowing Spouses
to Live Together in Iraq

Long-standing policy gives way in name of boosting morale, re-enlistment

Mar 31, 08 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Desperate to combat sagging morale from repeated deployments to Iraq, the US Army has quietly eased rules against married soldiers living together at war, the AP reports. Wedded soldiers in certain camps can now cohabitate in private trailers. "It makes a lot of things easier," said soldier and... More »

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Iraq • deployment • marriage • US military • US Army • soldier • military families • cohabitation

 Record Few Say 'I Do' in UK 

Weddings  at 144 year low

Mar 27, 08 3:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The number of marriages is plummeting in the UK, where newly released government figures have revealed the fewest weddings since the middle of the 19th century. Fewer than 23 men in every 1000 said "I do" in 2006 as more couples opt for cohabitation without a marriage license. The... More »

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families • United Kingdom • marriage • wedding • Church of England • Office for National Statistics • cohabitation

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