Sentences with phrase «unmarried heterosexual couple»

For example, if a child is born to an unmarried heterosexual couple, the woman who gave birth is deemed the mother and the biological father is the other parent.

If this is the situation, the family court will look at the case in the same way that they would when considering custody issues related to an unmarried heterosexual couple.

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

If you factor in the ending of gay and lesbian relationships (since such couples can't be legally married, they can't be legally divorced and thus don't get counted in these statistics), as well as committed but unmarried heterosexual couples, the numbers grow... more

Therapy with Unmarried Heterosexual Couples: Clinical and Ethical Issues: The Family Journal Vol 5 (4) Oct 1997, 295 - 302.

If you factor in the ending of gay and lesbian relationships (since such couples can't be legally married, they can't be legally divorced and thus don't get counted in these statistics), as well as committed but unmarried heterosexual couples, the numbers grow... more

Not exact matches

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

[93] He also voted in favour of allowing unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples to adopt, [94] and for lowering the age of consent for gay sex to 16.

The latest U.S. Census for 2008 reported 13.6 m unmarried, heterosexual couples living together.

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Or they could check into a motel together as two women but if they were a heterosexual unmarried couple, checking into a hotel at this time would have been a scandal.

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».

In 2005, a report by the State of Our Unions said that 8.1 % of all coupled households were unmarried heterosexuals.

Although some states still limit the familial rights of unmarried and / or same - sex couples, many term life insurance companies offer the same protection to domestic partners as they do to heterosexual, married couples.