Word: spousal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...states have completely eliminated preferential treatment for husbands, 26 other states hover in a gray zone: without gross brutality, the husband has the benefit of the doubt. If prosecutors decide they have enough for a case, ( however, they usually win; between 1978 and 1985, only 118 cases of spousal rape went to trial, but 104 wound up with a conviction...
...Spousal benefits were originally intended to aid families where one parent remained home to care for children and thus would not receive his or her own coverage, Silva says. Gay and lesbian partners are not covered, he says, because the university assumes both partners will work and that "children aren't an issue...