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- This did little to stop interracial relationships, except as legal, consensual unions.
- :" [ The rise in unmarried cohabitation ] shows that for many people it is not of great importance [ whether ] their union is a legal marriage or [ a ] consensual union.
- The parish priest had often dealt with regulation of public morals, but changes in their powers meant they no longer could mete out punishment for drunkenness, gambling, adultery, or consensual unions without benefit of marriage.
- Interestingly, in regions such as the Caribbean and Latin America we see a lower SMAM difference than expected, however there are also a large proportion of partners living in consensual unions; 24 % in Brazil, 20 % in Nicaragua and 18 % in Dominican Republic.
- Even though there are now numerous cases of consensual union ( common-law relationship ), couples living together without registering their marriages ( whether in the district office or, unofficially, in the village ) do not tend to be accepted as a " real " husband-and-wife team.
- The same committee voted, the following day, to change the current marriage law form, which describes marriage as " a consensual union "'between spouses "'", to the more restrictive form, describing it " as a union between a man and a woman alone ", thus banning same-sex marriage.
- Proponents such as 14 Ateneo de Manila University professors, argued thus : " Studies show that the majority of women who go for an abortion are married or in a consensual union ( 91 % ), the mother of three or more children ( 57 % ), and poor ( 68 % ) ( Juarez, Cabigon, and Singh 2005 ).