In 1960 American couples with two college-educated partners accounted for only 3% of the total.
Last year just over 2 million American couples tied the knot.
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The Obamas spend much of their social time with two African-American couples very much like themselves: Eric and Cheryl Whitaker and Martin Nesbitt and Anita Blanchard.
Research by Wendy Manning of Bowling Green State University and others shows that unmarried Mexican-American couples who have children while living together are slightly more likely to break up than are blacks or whites in similar circumstances.
In 2009, Uruguay was the first Latin American country to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
According to a poll by the University of Denver, the number one relationship argument is over money, and an American Express survey reports that the top source of anxiety among couples is finances.
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In the program, couples also learn about the history of the African-American marriage and many for the first time plot their family tree to trace marriage and divorces.
On March 14th, for example, Presbyterian clergy agreed to allow blessings of gay couples at marriage-like ceremonies, and last year the Central Conference of American Rabbis voted to let rabbis officiate at such occasions too.
Yet the Supreme Court has been solemnly assured by many scientific organizations, such as the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, that the overwhelming weight of evidence indicates that same-sex couples are every bit the equal of opposite-sex parents in every relevant respect.
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Access to couple's counseling: To gauge resources for couples who hit a rough patch, we collected the zip codes of members belonging to the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a professional organization for marriage and family therapists.
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