Sentences with phrase «for heterosexual married couples»

Quoting Kahng one last time, «The United States is one of the few developed countries to retain the joint income tax return, available for heterosexual married couples only.»

Not exact matches

If marriage is a «lifestyle» choice for heterosexual couples, as people seem to believe, why should homosexual couples not be allowed to marry?

Up for vote was a referendum on whether Washington state would allow gay and lesbian couples to have several of the rights and responsibilities of legally married heterosexual couples.

And this is true for all couples, heterosexual as well as homosexual, whether the couples are married or not.

This is equally true for heterosexual couples, many of whom choose to live together without marrying.

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

Its response to the coalition's consultation on proposals to allow same - sex couples to marry in the same way as heterosexual couples attacks ministers for pursuing the reform «for essentially ideological reasons» and concludes doing so would be «deeply unwise».

In 2010, two Oscar contenders — Blue Valentine and Black Swan — were in the middle of a firestorm after the former received an NC - 17 for sexuality while the latter received an R. Blue Valentine shows consensual sex between a soon - to - be married heterosexual couple; in one sequence there is an oral - sex scene without anything covering the participants.

In Shackell v the United Kingdom (Dec)(App no 45851 / 99), 27 April 2000, the court found that the situations of married and unmarried heterosexual cohabiting couples were not analogous for the purposes of survivors» benefits, since «marriage remains an institution which is widely accepted as conferring a particular status on those who enter it».

The Divorce Act does not distinguish between heterosexual and homosexual couples, nor does Ontario's Family Law Act (which governs property claims for divorcing spouses), and Canadian courts apply the law equally to all married couples.

Many term life insurance companies offer the same protection for domestic partners as they do for married, heterosexual couples.

For instance, a single man or a lesbian couple may have a harder time finding a placement than a married heterosexual couple will, even though technically they should be able to adopt.

For instance, United States census data indicate that 7.2 % of heterosexual married couples feature a man who is more than ten years older than his wife; in contrast, only 1.3 % of marriages feature a woman who is more than ten years older than her husband.1 Thus, it is certainly more novel and a violation of our social expectations to see the latter.

Criteria for Adoptive Parents: Married, heterosexual couples have the best chance of a match, but single women have also successfully adopted children from Uganda.

Wolfinger conducted another analysis, which he described on the Institute for Family Studies blog, which found that among heterosexual couples who married in the 2000s, women who'd had between three and nine sexual partners were less likely to divorce than women who'd had two partners (their husband and one other person).

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

For heterosexual couples that want to live together but choose not to marry, a pre-marital agreement is likewise useless.

Our premarital counseling seminar is designed for both heterosexual and same - sex couples considering or in the process of making a life commitment to each other, or newly married.