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Same-sex couples seem to be settling down - or a least more willing to talk about their living arrangements. New Census 2000 information from Vermont and Delaware shows a huge increase in households containing "unmarried partners" of the same sex. In Delaware, the number of households fitting that description rose 700 percent, to 1,868, and in Vermont - the only state that allows same-sex civil unions - the numbers rose more than 400 percent, from about 370 in 1990 to 1,933 in 2000. Results from the rest of the states, including high-density population centers like California...
...Dwight Fee is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College in Vermont who specializes in gender studies. He spoke to TIME.com Wednesday...
...Vermont and Delaware are the only states reporting so far - is this trend going to hold...
...from home without another adult to spell you, taking your time is safer--and sometimes more fun--than rushing to your destination. New Yorker Mary Farrell, a single mom, says her seven- and 10-year-old sons still remember the rest stop they took on their way to Vermont a couple of years ago. They spent two hours by a stream, throwing rocks and watching caterpillars...
...could argue that the Jeffords switch signaled the end of the Democrats? freedom. Until the Vermont Senator jumped ship from the GOP, the Dems were the toothless underdogs, growling angrily but harmlessly at Trent Lott and his committee chairmen as they back-pedaled all over President Clinton?s legacy. Tom Daschle stood at the front of the Democrats? stage, bathed in a dim light as he vowed almost soundlessly to fight the Republican encroachment on Democratic sacred cows like debt reduction and saving Social Security...