consensual union

…solution may be to terminate cohabitation or to remove an abused child from the family unit into some form of public or foster custody.

…increases in the numbers of cohabiting unmarried couples. In the 1970s some 12 percent of all Swedish couples living together aged 16 to 70 were unmarried. When in the United States in 1976 the number of such arrangements approached 1,000,000, the Bureau of the Census formulated a new statistical category—POSSLQ—denoting…

…contentious is the question of cohabitation. If an unemployed married woman living with her wage-earning husband is not entitled to social assistance, it would seem at first sight only fair that an unemployed woman cohabiting with an employed man should be treated in the same way. But cohabitation may not…