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Recognizing and Supporting Close Personal Relationships Between Adults
In response to the charter challenges to the heterosexual definition of marriage, the authors describe the viability of existing laws regarding marriage in a pluralistic society.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Law Commission of Canada
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May 01, 2000
Are Cohabiting Relationships More Violent Than Marriages?
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (1987-88 and 1992-93) this paper studies and compares the level of domestic violence ...
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
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June 01, 2001
Young Adult Attitudes About Relationships and Marriage: Times May Have Changed, But Expectations Remain High
This Research Brief provides a portrait of the attitudes and opinions of young adults about relationships and the importance of marriage.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Child Trends
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July 2009
Religious Beliefs Underpin Opposition to Homosexuality
This study looks at opposition to homosexuality and homosexual marriage in the United States.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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The Pew Research Center
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November 18, 2003
Cohabitation, Marriage and Child Wellbeing: A Cross-National Perspective
The author examines empirical data to chart the rapid rise of cohabitation across Western nations.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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The National Marriage Project, Rutgers
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2008
Marriage and Cohabitation in the United States: A Statistical Portrait Based on Cycle 6 (2002) of the National Survey of Family Growth
This report provides an overview of marital and cohabiting relationships in the United States among men and women aged 15–44 in 2002, by a variety of characteristics.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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National Centre for Health Statistics
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February 2010
The Psychological Benefits of Marriage
This report explores findings that show that married people tend to have a greater sense of psychological wellbeing than non married people and explores why marriage is related to lower levels of depression.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Maxim Institute
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March 2007
Spiritual Behaviors and Relationship Satisfaction: A Critical Analysis of the Role of Prayer
This article looks at studies which examine the role of spirituality and prayer in the development of young adult relationships.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Guilford Press
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2008
Canadian Attitudes on the Family
This survey asked a broad range of questions dealing with all aspects of the attitudes of Canadians toward marital and family satisfaction, work/family balance, taxation, family size, the impacts of cohabitation, divorce, same-sex marriage, parenting and the impact of children on marital satisfaction, and the significance of religion.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Focus on the Family (Canada)
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June 01, 2002
Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Stability
This paper investigates the stability of cohabiting versus married relationships, and finds that premarital cohabitation increases marital instability as well as the risk of separation and divorce.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Australian Institute of Family Studies
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March 13, 2003
American Courts on Marriage: Is Marriage Discriminatory? 1998-2008
This brief provides selected excerpts from all final state and federal court rulings since 1988 concerning whether marriage laws are discriminatory.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Institute of Marriage and Public Policy
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May 2008
Marriage on Trial: Why We Must Privilege and Burden the Traditional Marriage Bond
In this speach, the author discusses the legal and social challenges to the traditional institution of marriage that have come from advocates of common-law and homosexual relationships.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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The Howard Center
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June 12, 2003
Generation Gap in Values, Behaviors: As Marriage and Parenthood Drift Apart, Public is Concerned about Social Impact
This national survey of 2020 adults finds that people are worried about the societal impact of the separation of parenthood from marriage.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Pew Research Center
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July 1, 2007
Domestic partnerships: A response to recent proposals on civic unions
This paper argues that the State should protect the unique status of marriage because of the social benefits to children and society.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Iona Institute for Religion and Society
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2007
Sexual Frequency and the Stability of Marital and Cohabiting Unions
In this study, the authors utilize data from the National Survey of Families and Households to suggest that low sexual frequency is associated with significantly higher rates of union dissolution in cohabitating relationships than in marital unions.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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School of Family and Social Dynamics and Center for Population Dynamics, Arizona State University
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2007
Same-Sex Couples in the Netherlands
This paper provides estimates of the number of same-sex couples forming households in the Netherlands.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Statistics Netherlands, Division of Social and Spatial Statistics
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June 30, 2003
The Facts Behind Cohabitation
This fact-sheet document highlights research about the differences between cohabitation and marriage.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Civitas: the Institute for the Study of Civil Society
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c.2001
The Future of Family Law: Law and the Marriage Crisis in North America.
This paper contends that the current debate in family law is centrally about competing visions of marriage.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Institute for American Values, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law and Culture
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June 2005
Making Marriage Matter
This lecture highlights the efforts of Frank Keating (the Governor of Oklahoma) to strengthen families and strengthen marriage in Oklahoma.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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The Heritage Foundation
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September 27, 2000
Domestic Partner Benefits: Chipping Away at Marriage and the Traditional Family
This paper discusses an initiative which would provide benefits to couples in domestic partnerships and emphasizes the ways in which this undermines marriage and the family.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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North Carolina Family Policy Council
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October 2004
Losing Our Grip on Marriage
This article outlines the changes in the definition, role and structure of marriage since 1850.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Maxim Institute
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Autumn 2001
Marriage: One Man, One Woman
This paper explores the definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman and offers support for the preservation of this definition ...
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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The Family Research Council
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2005
The World Still Revolves Around Families
This paper discusses the findings of a 1999 international poll which reported that, overall, the world's population values marriage, children and the family.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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The Maxim Institute
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Autumn 2002
Cohabitation: A Snapshot
This paper examines patterns of cohabitation in the United States, the characteristics of cohabiters, the quality and length of their relationships, and the relationship between cohabitation, marriage, and divorce.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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May 1998
Thinking of Getting Married?: Same Sex Couples Win the Right to Marry in Ontario
This document summarizes: 1) the Ontario Court of Appeal decision to grant couples of the same sex the rights to marry, 2) the federal government's reaction to the court of appeal decision, and 3) the implications of that decision on homosexual marriages.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Nelligan O'Brien Payne
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June 19, 2003
A Report on the Experiences of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in America and the Public’s Views on Issues and Policies Related to Sexual Orientation
This document gives the results of two polls done by the Kaiser Family Foundation, one on the experiences of lesbians, gays and bisexuals and one on the public's attitudes towards this group and the related public policy issues.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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2000
EGALE Canada v. Attorney General of Canada
This 2001 case looks at whether the definition of marriage, which prohibits same-sex marriage, is contrary to the Charter of Rights and freedoms.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Canadian Legal Information Institute
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October 02, 2001
The Verdict on Cohabitation vs. Marriage
This article looks at the benefits of marriage over cohabitation.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Brigham Young University
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2001
Halpern et al v. Attorney General of Canada et al
This document states the judicial decision on whether the exclusion of same-sex couples from the traditional and common law definition of marriage breaches ss. 2(a) or 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of ...
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO
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June 10, 2003
Slim Majority (54%) Support Same-Sex Marriage: Canadians Split on Next Steps
Shortly after the June 2003 Supreme Court ruling which declared the traditional definition of marriage to be unconstitutional, this Ipsos-Reid poll found that a slim majority of Canadians support same-sex marriages.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Ipsos-Reid
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June 13, 2003
Attitudes About Homosexuality and Gay Marriage
This paper presents the results of a number of polls conducted since 1973 that measure the public's attitude towards homosexual relations, the causes of homosexuality, and legislative and public policy issues concerning homosexual rights.
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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April 23, 2004
It’s All in the Past? Exploring the Repercussions of Parents’ Early Conjugal and Parental Histories on the Family Life Course of Their Children
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey on Children and Youth (NLSCY), this paper examines the impact the parents’ conjugal and parental behaviour (prior to the union in which the target child was born) has upon the child’s outcomes
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Category:
Marriage > Domestic Partnership/Civil union
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Human Resources Development Canada
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January 01, 2002
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