Ms. PAT BURKE: Thirty-five years ago there were farms up and down this road of people are age, and we are probably one of two couples left.
In 1969 the Matthews case and that of two other couples were bundled up with an East-West spy swap.
That is because the top fifth is heavily composed of two earner couples and older children or other relatives that work.
Moreover, couples with two sons have a 36.9% likelihood of divorcing versus couples with two daughters who face a 43.1% likelihood.
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Her unease lasted through the introductions of two elderly Russian couples, two elderly Chinese couples, three middle-aged Dominican couples, one handsome young Haitian man, one very tall, very old, and very loud Haitian woman with a funny name Oolna and one dark-skinned woman who spoke so fast and with such a heavy accent that nobody could understand what she said or where she came from.
Three years later, roughly the same proportion of civil-union couples and married couples had split but just two of the 13 same-sex couples had legally terminated their civil union.
Wednesday's lawsuit was filed on behalf of two same-sex couples who have been denied marriage licenses under Proposition 8.
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Finally, single earner couples do better than singles and two-earner couples because of the survivor benefits.
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Which is something of a problem as the two couples have chosen this moment to have a much needed talk about those boys.
If and when one couple decides to sell, the other two couples must approve of the buyer.
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In recent decades, the casebooks have added the feminist point that joint filing tends to perpetuate a traditional division of labor by penalizing two-worker couples and to imposing a high marginal tax rate on working wives.
The tax law gradually increased the standard deduction for married taxpayers who file jointly to an amount equal to twice the standard deduction of persons filing a single return, resembling the original 1948 bill that allowed two full deductions for married couples regardless of the level of income.
This year a record number of donors, three (couples), are under the age of 40, up from two the previous year.
In Tokyo, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Japanese victims were two couples in their 60s from Tokyo, but declined to give their names.
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.
They had two children and publicly extolled the virtues of couples therapy.
He told reporters he'd spoken at two of these churches about the court ruling favoring gay couples.
Combining two salaries pushes dual-income married couples out of the benefit range.
The area where I see the two fields most commonly overlapping is in the decision of married couples to elect to file a joint return.
The Optimum Population Trust goes further with proposals that government encourage couples to stop at two children and the introduction of a one-in one-out policy on immigration.
Weston's two Protestant churches are unwilling to sanctify the vows of civil-union couples.
This is one reason that divorce has been rising among couples over 50, and why more than two thirds of such breakups are now initiated by the wife.
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The court should vacate the decision striking down Proposition 8, leaving in place the original district-court order that prompted the case by allowing two same-sex couples to marry, but depriving Hollingsworth of precedential effect.
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The two couples had joined Sergeant and partner Kristina Rihanoff at the bottom of the score table following Saturday night's performances.
But even after they married in 2007 in Toronto, some 40 years into their courtship, the two women were not "like most couples" in the eyes of the state of New York, where they lived, nor in the eyes of the U.S. government, which under the Defense of Marriage Act mandates that a spouse, as legally defined, must be a person of the opposite sex.
In 1960 American couples with two college-educated partners accounted for only 3% of the total.
When it comes to layering couples, however, the longstanding technique of placing the taller of the two in the back tends to hold true for basic principles of composition.
Like the play, "Carnage" is confined mostly to an upscale Brooklyn apartment where two couples slowly submit to their savage inner selves while navigating the aftermath of a playground brawl between their young sons.
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There were four couples in their 20s, three mother-daughter pairs and two other clusters of women, one young, the other middle-aged.
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