"Cohabitation is everywhere. Living together may once have been scandalous, but today it's the way most people begin partnered life with the person
they love."
- From the introduction to Unmarried To Each Other
News and commentary about cohabitation, marriage, and other topics of interest.
Links: Unmarried To Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple
The Alternatives to Marriage Project
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"[Cohabitation Nation] is new, interesting, and worth a gander."
- Fig and Plum
"A very promising cohabitation-centric weblog."
- Lockhart Steele
Variations on a theme:
Council on Contemporary Familes /
Indiebride /
Celebrate Friendship /
Lucy Stone League /
Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples /
Partnership for Caring
Epic individuals:
Lockhart Steele /
Michael Oates Palmer /
Jonathan Van Gieson /
Josh Albertson /
Emma Goldman /
Gawker
"Am I to read this as an imposition of abstinence on prospective foster parents who are not married?"
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2:43 PM
First North Carolina, now South Carolina.
Cohabitation in North Carolina
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6:47 PM
Ryan Bakken, if you think North Dakota is bad, try North Carolina:
WILMINGTON, N.C. -- An unmarried couple who are the parents of a 2-year-old child are facing the threat of separation because the woman is on probation, and cohabitation is illegal in North Carolina.
Melissa Sheridan said she and her boyfriend, John Finger, moved to North Carolina a few months ago from New York, after she paid restitution involving welfare fraud and was put on three years' probation. She has about two years to go.
New York allowed her to leave with the assumption North Carolina would supervise her probation. But, Sheridan said, North Carolina has refused because she and Finger are cohabiting, which violates state law.... [Read more]
Marriage Boycott
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10:20 PM
Since I spend a good part of each day emailing and talking with people who choose not to marry and the reporters who want to interview them, it's often hard to tell the difference between a widespread cultural trend and whatever is on the mind of AtMP's constituency at the moment. But then, every so often, I'll get a string of emails and calls that fit together the pieces of the puzzle very clearly. Now there's no question in my mind this is really happening: there's a Marriage Boycott underway. The question is-- how many people are actively involved, or at least talking about it? Is it thousands or tens of thousands or more? How fast could it grow? We'll find out.
Cohabitation Vote
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9:48 PM
Could unmarried women swing the election? "If unmarried women voted at the same rate as married women, there would be 6 million more voters in the electorate," Marla Romash, a former Gore campaign aide, told Newhouse News Service. Read about it here, here, and here.
Korean food in Baltimore, MD
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10:35 PM
If you enjoy Korean food and find yourself in or around downtown Baltimore, I highly recommend Soo's Kimchee House on 11 West Preston Street (410-234-1377). Soo's vegetarian bibimbap is the best on the East Coast, and on a visit there this past weekend, she shared with me equally delicious green-wrapped dumplings and kimchee. I haven't asked her opinion of cohabitation, but I'm sure she'd serve any unmarried couple with pride. Further reading in the Baltimore City Paper.