Published February 11, 2006, on AmericanDaily.com
Social conservatives are so preoccupied with the battle to prevent judicial activists from reinventing the definition of marriage that they’re losing sight of a trend already wreaking untold havoc on the nuclear family – cohabitation.
Also known as “shacking up” or “playing house,” this non-matrimonial experiment has grown in the United States from the frowned-upon custom of a small minority to a socially acceptable living arrangement practiced by over ten million people. And those who remain steadfast in condemning the practice are routinely ostracized and ridiculed as hopelessly out of step with the sexual mores of our time. Read the rest of this entry »