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Same Sex Couples - Comparative Insights on Marriage and Cohabitation

Same Sex Couples - Comparative Insights on Marriage and Cohabitation

Sáez, Macarena

Paperback

Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, Book 42

PhilosophyGeneral LawGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9402405445
ISBN13: 9789402405446
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 23 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book shows six different realities of same-sex families. They range from full recognition of same-sex marriage to full invisibility of gay and lesbian individuals and their families. The broad spectrum of experiences presented in this book share some commonalities: in all of them legal scholars and civil society are moving legal boundaries or thinking of spaces within rigid legal systems for same-sex families to function. In all of them there have been legal claims to recognize the existence of same-sex families. The difference between them lies in the response of courts. Regardless of the type of legal system, when courts have viewed claims of same-sex couples and their families as problems of individual rights, they have responded with a constitutional narrative protecting same-sex couples and their families. When courts respond to these claims with rigid concepts of what a family is and what marriage is as if legal concepts where unmodifiable, same-sex couples have remained outside the protection of the law.

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