Domestic Partner Benefits

According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, a family is "the basic unit in society having as its nucleus two or more adults living together and cooperating in the care and rearing of their own or adopted children." Despite this definition, a lesbian or gay couple or two heterosexuals living together with or without children is not the image conjured up when most people think of a family. Who gets to decide what it takes to …

…families. Millions of Americans rely on health care through employer-provided plans and should be entitled to have their domestic partners covered by the same benefits as those that are afforded to their married counterparts at the office. References: Achieving Domestic Partner Benefits, Retrieved September 7, 2005, from the World Wide Web: http://www.afscme.org/wrkplace/cbr199htm. Domestic Partnership Benefits, Retrieved September 7, 2005, from the World Wide Web: http://www.ss.ca.gov/dpregistry/dp_newleg.htm