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Unconventional? Yes. Unusual? Not exactly. Commuter marriages, in which couples live apart for long stretches, are multiplying. Their number jumped 30%, to 3.6 million, from 2000 to 2005, according to an analysis of census figures by Greg Guldner of the Center for the Study of Long-Distance Relationships, a Web-based clearinghouse for research in this nascent field. While military deployments, migratory jobs and economic need have long forced couples around the world to live apart, in America today, it is more often the woman's career that drives the separation. Technologies like instant messaging and Skype make the parting...
Even the arrival of kids doesn't necessarily end the arrangement. The census counts 817,000 children under 18 who have married parents living apart for reasons other than marital discord. For these couples, it can mean a hectic and stressed-out lifestyle akin to single parenting for one spouse and an achingly lonely and guilt-ridden one for the other. Every Monday, Jaime Cangas, 40, kisses his wife Karen, 36, goodbye as she leaves their Plano, Texas, home and heads toward the airport. As a consultant for Accenture, she will be gone until late Thursday night, working with clients...
...ETERNAL LOVE New U.S. Census Bureau data show that the divorce rate, after rising sharply in the early 1970s, has remained relatively stable--not to mention high. Fewer than half the couples who first got married in the late 1970s made it to their 25th anniversary. Of the women who first got hitched in the late 1980s, only 57% reached their 15th anniversary, compared with 79% of brides in the late 1950s...
Number of Americans without health insurance, up from 44.8 million last year, according to new census figures...
Sources: CNN (2); USA Today (2); New York Times; U.S. Census Bureau; Apple...