Cohabitation Is A Threat To Justice

The sources I used for the below post is the commentary by David N. Bass titled "Cohabitation: America's botched social experiment" and the media release titled ACLU and "Former 911 Dispatcher File Lawsuit Challenging North Carolina Anti-Cohabitation Law" from ACLU.org

There is a very important case before the Supreme Court of North Carolina that puts the ACLU against the People of North Carolina. The American Civil Liberties Union is once more supporting their anarchistic ideal of liberty against the attempt of the people to protect themselves from the result of immoral behavior. The case is about whether or not cohabitation should be illegal.

A legal battle taking place in North Carolina illustrates this growing quagmire that is mixing culture, religion, and morals into a ubiquitous soup. According to the Associated Press, a North Carolina Superior Court judge in early February approved the continuation of a lawsuit challenging state General Statute § 14-184, which forbids unmarried couples from living together on penalty of a misdemeanor charge. Spearheaded by the ACLU of North Carolina, the suit was filed on behalf of a former police dispatcher, who left her position after being told by her supervisor to stop cohabiting, marry her live-in boyfriend, or find another job. The legal challenge seeks to have the cohabitation statute declared unconstitutional.

Cohabitation is proven to be a danger to our society. Despite the known danger to our society the ACLU shows a profound hatred for the institute of heterosexual marriage. They support homosexual marriage.

"The Supreme Court has made it clear that the government has no business regulating relationships between two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home," said Jennifer Rudinger, Executive Director of the ACLU of North Carolina. "North Carolina's cohabitation law is not only patently unconstitutional, but the idea that the government would criminalize people's choice to live together out of wedlock in this day and age defies logic and common sense."

The ACLU also considers pedophilia to be “unpopular”. They are not concerned with the damage done to women or children by such “popular” actions as living in a sexual relationship without marriage.

The number one disadvantage of shacking up is its detrimental impact on children. Statistically, cohabiting drastically increases the likelihood of a future break-up in the relationship, and children are often the unintended victims. One study by The Heritage Foundation estimated that nearly 80 percent of children in cohabiting households will spend a part of their childhood in a single-parent home. Research clearly indicates that children in fragmented families have poorer grades and more behavior problems than children in married family households.

Abuse is also endemic in cohabitation. Most children living in cohabiting homes are not biologically related to both parents, increasing the risk of sexual and physical abuse. The Heritage Foundation reports that rates of child abuse are as much as 33 times higher in cohabiting relationships than in stable married households.

In addition to children, women also suffer by settling for live-in boyfriends instead of husbands. An article in the Journal of Family Psychology found that married mothers enjoy higher levels of intimacy and improved psychological well being compared to women who cohabit. Married women also enjoy the benefits of markedly higher rates of sexual fidelity in their relationships. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2002, 92 percent of married males reported having had only one sexual partner over the preceding twelve months. Another study found that just 69 percent of cohabiting men could make the same claim.