"In 1994, there were 3.7 million cohabiting couples in the United States."

Opponents of cohabitation believe that some cohabiting couples choose not to marry because they would suffer a tax penalty.

There is no good reason - feminist or other - why cohabiting couples should be treated better than married ones.

The time many cohabiting couples choose to legalize their union is when they are pleased enough with each other as partners to start a family.

The film tells the story of a contemporary cohabiting Indian couple and their subsequent struggle with an unexpected pregnancy.

The 2006 Irish census revealed 121,000 cohabiting couples, up from 77,000 in 2002.

Most of the cohabiting couples she knows marry for only one reason, she said.

This can be with a single person, a cohabiting couple or in a heterosexual or a homosexual home.