Pickings are getting slimmer since 40% of large companies now offer benefits to unmarried live-in couples.
He and his staff bring in couples and observe them as they perform various tasks.
"I also find that the incidence in divorce is far higher in couples where both spouses are working than in couples where only one spouse is employed, " Johnson says.
In couples where both parents are bringing home pay, fathers spend nearly 11 hours more a week on paid work than mothers do, while mothers spend more time on unpaid chores.
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On the other hand in couples where only one spouse works, they may be unhappy for years, they may hate each other and even tolerate physical abuse, but they can not divorce because at least one of them is 100% dependent on another.
They were compared with 84 same-sex couples in their friendship circle who didn't get civil unions, and with 55 heterosexual married couples in which one of the spouses was a sibling of one of the same-sex couples in a civil union.
People who were married for at least 10 years before getting divorced "earned a lot of rights that those in married couples have in terms of spousal benefits and survivor benefits, " Mr. Mahaney says.
The men in these couples, she discovered, exhibited significant changes in their levels of cortisol, testosterone (the principal male sex hormone, and thus in some sense the masculine equivalent of estradiol) and prolactin over the courses of their partners' pregnancies.
Around one in every seven heterosexual couples in the UK who are trying for a baby experience problems conceiving a child.
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In 11% of couples, women do almost all of the housework, and in 60% of couples, women do more of the housework.
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While there are be both penalties and bonuses for married couples in the tax code, couples are more likely to get bonuses.
The question remains, though, why in human couples the man is almost always older.
The couple began to work with Ms. Mintzer and Ms. Taylor, the retirement coaches, in a couples' discussion group.
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Godfrey Freeman, chairman of Resolution, an association of family lawyers, points out that the lower-earning partners in such couples may find it harder to claim benefits.
This is a Jerry Springer-like show, in which separated couples are brought together in a studio and encouraged by a breathless audience to work out their differences--or not.
Treatment is limited to those with a medical cause for infertility and in general couples must have been trying for a year to be diagnosed as having fertility problems.
The commission is now considering pilot schemes in five or six provinces allowing couples in which one partner is an only child to have a second baby, according to people familiar with the discussions.
"Capturing Love" is primarily designed to help wedding photographers think about what to ask couples in the planning phase, but couples can also draw inspiration from the poses regardless of their sexual orientation, she said.
According to MSN, prior to 2001 more than half of married couples paid less in taxes than if they filed separately, but the couples paying more in taxes after getting married were the working poor.
Cohabitation is common in other parts of Europe too, but in Britain couples who live together unmarried seem not to last: half split up after three or four years and a little less than half go on to marry (before perhaps divorcing later).
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"Tourist weddings" are still an important feature - just over a quarter of the marriages in 2007 involved couples where neither party lived in Scotland.
In fact, the 20% increase in mortality that a woman marrying a man seven-to-nine years younger suffers (at least in Denmark, where the 2 million couples in the study lived) is almost exactly the same as the mortality rate of women who marry men 7-to-17 years their senior.
Lower priority is given to those who have been married for less than two years, couples in civil partnerships, single people and married couples who do not wish to adopt within the Catholic faith.
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In the other couples, the infected partner waited to start treatment until later in the course of the disease, a common practice in many countries.
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But first, speaking of complicated emotions, in one way, election night was a bitter one for thousands of gay couples in California and across the country.
D. and Tasha Menaker of Sam Houston State found that more than 60% of women in heterosexual working couples reported victimization, while only 30% of women reported victimization in cases when only the male partner was employed.
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Because almost all couples in the study were heterosexual, the new findings don't apply to homosexual couples, researchers cautioned.
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In those states, gay couples may join in civil unions or become domestic partners and have all the benefits of marriage but cannot be married.
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