Some married-parent families struggle, just as some families headed by cohabiting or single mothers thrive.
Outside the Arab world, in Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia, Islam and democracy are cohabiting fairly comfortably.
The Scottish Executive plans to increase the rights of cohabiting couples and unmarried fathers.
Bollywood movies, generally a good barometer of social trends, are increasingly depicting cohabiting couples in a favorable light.
Given enough time, town pigeons in New York may one day be averse to cohabiting with town pigeons in San Francisco.
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Mr Clarke wants the relatives who must be consulted to be limited to cohabiting partner, husband or wife, parent and child.
Two academics, Kathleen Keirnan and Rosangela Merlo, studied what happened in Australia as a succession of states granted rights to cohabiting couples.
But the Arkansas Family Council, a Christian conservative group, decided to broaden the ban to cover all cohabiting couples, gay or straight.
The survey also found 92% of families with dependent children were headed by a married or cohabiting couple, compared with 78% in 2011.
Anne Barlow, an academic at the University of Essex who has interviewed many cohabiting couples, says that few of them reject marriage on principle.
"It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships, " he said.
Tariq Modood, who wrote much of the study, points out that 1% of Pakistanis who were married or cohabiting had a white partner, compared with 20% of Caribbean adults.
Many potential BJP allies (such as the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh) will be wary of alienating Muslim voters by cohabiting with him.
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The highest number of people living together is in south east England with more than 30% of people cohabiting while only 10% of people live together in Northern Ireland, the lowest number.
The sponsors would either be their parent or parents with whom they live, or the parent and a step-parent, or their spouse, civil partner or cohabiting partner, depending on the student's particular situation.
Many young people in their twenties have children with a cohabiting partner, but these cohabiting relationships have proven to be quite unstable, leading to a lot of turmoil for both the children and the adults in such households.
The fact that (for example) an unmarried woman who is not named in her partner's will can be turfed out of the house by his relatives when he dies did not seem so egregious when cohabiting women were rare and young.
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