Lisa Murkowski

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

American Politician

Todd Tiahrt

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

Byron Howard

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

American Director

Victoria Woodhull

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

American Activist

Sloane Crosley

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

American Writer

Sandra Tsing Loh

I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.

Stephanie Coontz

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

American Author

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Roman Statesman

Often used when discussing living arrangements between people in intimate relationships without marriage.

Relationship Context

The idea of cohabiting can be culturally sensitive; accepted in some places and frowned upon in others.

Cultural Acceptance

Some regions have laws affecting cohabiting couples, like 'common-law' partnerships.

Legal Implications

In biology, cohabit implies a beneficial relationship between two living organisms.

Mutual Benefit

Used in ecological topics to describe interspecies living arrangements.

Ecology-Oriented

More than two organisms can cohabit, forming complex communities.

Non-Exclusive

 still could string tight topography and that's the really important point there there's only a limited amount of land here when you have you know species like grizzly bears and cougars you know cohabiting in areas where there's a lot of human activity is a real real challenge

People and Bears Live in...

 It's a tool that empowers the child to build his or her own world, and then to inhabit that world through play and to invite her friends to join her in cohabiting and cocreating that world. And that is exactly what formgivning is.