PARTNERS: To better reflect the state of...

PARTNERS: To better reflect the state of the American household, the U.S. Census Bureau plans its first count of Americans living in “committed relationships” outside of marriage (A40). . . . But UC Irvine social ecology professor Mark Baldassare said he’d be skeptical of the findings because they presuppose that both persons will have the same view of the relationship. . . . “Members of a couple can have different interpretations as to how stable, how permanent that relationship is,” he said.