Islamic rules on religiously mixed marriages have harsh consequences for many couples in Italy, for example.
Their nest: For many couples, tying the knot is followed by a home purchase, which could mean qualification for the home-buyer tax credit.
Jane Denton, director of the Multiple Birth Foundation, said for many couples who have struggled to conceive the prospect of twins is very appealing.
For many couples, it offers time to unwind and get romantic.
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The numbers shown actually understate the advantages of the split-age strategy for many couples, since the husband and wife in this table are both now 62.
Just as some people view getting engaged differently in 2012 than they did a mere decade ago, living together is now regarded as a permanent state for many couples.
Kyle Pruett, a leading child-development researcher and co-author of a 2009 book, "Partnership Parenting, " says Mr. Grossbauer's and Ms. O'Callaghan's differences, typical for many couples, can benefit the children.
Such an embrace would have proved lethal for many turtle couples at this lake, Joyce said.
For many married couples, that 50% spousal benefit is often much higher than what the lower-wage-earning spouse could collect based on his or her own earnings record.
If the court strikes down DOMA for tax purposes, many same-sex couples in those states will face higher tax bills.
It meanders along, it is failing to keep pace with the number of children cleared for adoption, and it drives many outstanding couples to adopt from abroad.
Macomb, an interfaith minister who honors all religions, has been officiating weddings since 1996, and many of them have been for couples from different cultural or religious paths.
"New York has finally torn down the barrier that prevented same-sex couples from exercising the freedom to marry and from receiving the fundamental protections that so many couples and families take for granted, " Mr Cuomo said in a statement.
And many childless couples come to Amma asking for a child to be born to them.
On Saturday, French President Francois Hollande signed into law a bill allowing marriage and adoption for same-sex couples despite vocal opposition from many conservatives and the Catholic Church.
Relativity did a great job of marketing Safe Haven as the top choice for Valentine's Day couples, and the built-in cachet of Nicholas Sparks continues to prove irresistible for many moviegoers.
This is not IVF for infertile couples, but the only healthcare option open to many hoping to save the life of their child.
The shoppers were a diverse group made up of families with children, young couples and corporate groups, many traveling abroad for the first time.
Similar declines have occurred as well in Brooklyn, a borough that many priced-out Manhattan couples have seen as a refuge for young families.
One reason is that the housing stock in the heart of Ridgewood has many buildings with city landmark designations and draws families and young couples looking for homes.
Currently many IVF clinics urge couples to create several embryos in order to choose the best for implantation, and to donate to research or freeze the unused ones.
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.
He also said many single-earning couples had "no choice" but to stay at home to care for a disabled child or an elderly dependent relative.
While marriage is hardly a panacea for economic health, allowing same-sex couples to marry at least gives them the same opportunities for building stable and economically secure families that so many other Americans have.
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