But after they started building a life and family together, they decided to marry to set an example for their adopted daughters.
But Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin welcomed the plans telling MPs "we should afford the freedom to marry to every citizen in this country".
While Angelina and her fiance, Brad Pitt, have six kids, Thornton has one daughter with longtime girlfriend Connie Angland, whom the five-times-married Thornton said he will try to not marry to avoid jinxing the relationship.
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Kirsch has always had a weakness for causes, but she learned to marry them to a disciplined approach.
But progressive types believe that there are two simpler ways out of the mess: to allow priests to marry and to allow women priests.
Child marriage rates are also higher in refugee and IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps, where girls are encouraged to marry early to safeguard their virginity.
" To allow people of the same sex to marry was to downgrade marriage's importance by misunderstanding it as simply "a domestic relationship between two people.
Companies that devise creative ways, such as e-books, standardized medical records and smart grid technology, to marry broadband to those issues will also benefit from the FCC plan, says Arbogast.
As one of the nuns often reminded my mother during her years in Catholic high school, it is just as easy to marry a rich man as it is to marry a poor man.
Recent research suggests that non-lonely people tend to marry non-lonely people and lonely people tend to marry lonely people, Cacioppo said.
Not only are the well-off and well-educated far more likely to marry and stay married than poorer folk, they tend to marry each other.
The wins at the ballot box, along with those in courts and legislatures, show "irrefutable momentum in favor of the freedom to marry, " said Evan Wolfson, founder of national gay-rights group Freedom to Marry.
College graduates (64%) are more likely to marry than those without a degree (48%), and blacks are half as likely to marry as whites.
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"As people have grown up with people having the right to marry the generational momentum has been very, very strong, " said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, a gay rights organization.
When Sanghera left, her younger sister had to marry the man to whom she had been promised.
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He speaks fuzzily of the need for a strong but decentralised state to marry economic liberalism to social justice.
Coontz notes some couples even choose not to marry in order to reassure adult children that they'll get their inheritances.
When the family arranges to marry its daughter to a Druze from Damascus, the wedding must be held at the border.
Extending the right to marry and adopt to same-sex couples was one of President Francois Hollande's electoral pledges in campaigning this year.
Extending the right to marry and adopt to same-sex couples was one of President Francois Hollande's electoral pledges in campaigning last year.
The most serious governmental efforts to combat obesity consist of efforts to marry the power to regulate commerce with the insights of behavioral economics.
Extending the right to marry and adopt to same-sex couples in France was one of President Francois Hollande's electoral pledges in campaigning last year.
He cast himself as Prince Nikolaus von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg, the hedonistic scion of a fading noble family whose parents want to marry him off to a homely corn-plaster heiress (Zasu Pitts).
Feminism insists on women's right to make choices -- about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and family or to focus on one over the other.
When trying to decide who to marry, who to date with a view to marrying, heck, who to go out with a cup of coffee with before even deciding upon a date, more choice is worse?
Twenty-eight per cent support civil unions and 26% believe the right to marry should be extended to all.
For the past year, Bayer has tried to marry its drug business to Akzo Nobel and others--but only if Bayer could keep control.
He decrees that he and Irene will be married, and that Andronico is free to marry Asteria and return to the throne of Greece.
Croix half-Ironman competition in 2008 and held up a sign asking Ms. England to marry him, according to an article about her athletic feats.
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