So in 1995 Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, decided to see if the anecdotes were true.

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In 2006, 1.8 million Americans aged 50 and above lived in heterosexual "unmarried-partner households, " a 50% increase from 2000, figures Bowling Green State University demographer Susan Brown.

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Research by Wendy Manning of Bowling Green State University and others shows that unmarried Mexican-American couples who have children while living together are slightly more likely to break up than are blacks or whites in similar circumstances.

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Bowling Green State University, which says it has the only Department of Popular Culture in the nation and the largest popular music archives in an academic library in the U.S., appears poised to become a hub for metal research.

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"We don't have to be married to enjoy many of the benefits that traditionally were exclusive to marriage, " said Susan Brown, co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

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