In America, married people get more than 1,000 legal benefits that single people can't access. Vox's Sigal Samuel asks why people in a platonic partnership can't enjoy the same kind of benefits, and why society values friendships less than familial relationships and marriages. Do you have a "best friend?"
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Once considered taboo due to the mere suggestion that a couple was having premarital sex, cohabitation before marriage is now the norm. “If nursery rhymes are clues to how couples live their lives, ‘first comes love, then comes marriage’ is sorely outdated,” Allie Volpe writes for Vox. Read more about this cultural trend and dive into the question of whether living together before marriage is good for the relationship. https://flip.it/o.Npuz
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Before the 1960s, it was really hard to get divorced in America. Back then you would have to convince a judge that your spouse had committed some act of wrongdoing, like adultery or abuse. If the Christian right has its way, dissolving a marriage is about to become a lot more difficult once again. Vox explains: https://flip.it/cOkxGl
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