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Looking for love? Australian study has some ideas

Jul. 15, 2009
If you're looking for happily ever after, Australian researchers have a suggestion: Find a partner who shares your smoking habits. Researchers at Australian National University studied 2,482 married or cohabiting heterosexual couples over a seven-year period...
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SYDNEY, July 8 (UPI) -- The Law and Justice Committee in the Australian state of New South Wales says the law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.

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WORCESTER, Mass., April 2 (UPI) -- Gay men are more likely than others, and heterosexual men are least likely, to have a gender preference when adopting a child, U.S. researchers said.

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PARIS, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Authorities in France say a civil union designed a decade ago for gay couples has become increasingly popular with heterosexual couples.

Serial cohabiters less likely to marry

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URBANA, Ill., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Two U.S. studies dispute the stereotype that couples in same-sex relationships are not as committed as their heterosexual counterparts.

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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Studies of lesbian and gay couples reveal some key factors that may promote healthier relationships in straight couples, a U.S. psychologist says.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Married couples are now a minority among households in the United States, The New York Times reported Sunday.

Study: Cohabiting not prelude to marriage

ITHACA, N.Y., July 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. study finds that one-half of all cohabiting unions end within a year and 90 percent within five years and may just be "an intense form of dating."

Lesbians react like heterosexual males

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Women's health suffers from cohabiting

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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch