Word: spousal
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Advocates also argue that legalizing gay unions is a way of getting the spousal benefits--health insurance, pension plans, inheritance rights--that long-term domestic partners deserve. Moreover, Sullivan maintains that marriage will encourage care giving to partners, something especially vital in the age of AIDS...
...fate of the nonfamous ex-spouse of a big star is, as LARRY FORTENSKY has found, a bitter one, especially when you've signed a prenup agreeing to get zip. Frustrated by the slow pace of his divorce from LIZ TAYLOR, Fortensky has filed for more spousal support and access to Taylor's records. "We're surprised and disappointed," says Neil Papiano, Taylor's lawyer. Counters Raoul Felder, for Fortensky: "We've gotten lots of charm, but it's going nowhere...
...women is not one which will soon disappear, but one which presents itself as a choice with which we will grapple for some time. Our future will constantly be a battle between these two forces, between academic ambition and the desire for social acceptance, between career aspirations and spousal responsibilities, between professional commitments and maternal obligations. Let us not be discouraged by the challenge of finding the right formula, but let us look forward instead to the fulfilling rewards we will reap when this balance is struck...
Idaho, after all, has the most conservative legislature in the country. Spousal rape is still legal in the state and the secretary of state was reelected after making some outrageous statements about rape victims...
While many may be uncomfortable with a woman who has created a real sphere of power and influence in what was once merely a spousal position, such discomfort must not be the source of accusation. Her role, like that of women in general over the past few decades, has been greatly expanded. Let us not impede the First Lady from joining, and ideally leading, American women towards their long awaited sexual equality...