Scientific coordination : Véronique Hertrich (Ined), Assa Gakou (Instat-Mali) and Aurélie Dasré (UPO)
Scientific coordination : Clémentine Rossier (Unige) and Binta Dieme (ANSD)
Scientific coordination: Marc Pilon (IRD) and Madeleine Wayack (ISSP)
Scientific coordination : Bruno Masquelier (UCL) and Abdramane Soura (ISSP)
Population and Societies n° 533, May 2016
Authors: Anne Gosselin, Annabel Desgrées du Loû, Eva Lelièvre, France Lert,
Rosemary Dray-Spira, Nathalie Lydié and al.
Same-sex families are gaining legal recognition. More and more countries are making marriage and partnership available to them. Or attaching (some) rights and benefits to their cohabitation. Just as rights and benefits are being attached to different-sex cohabitation. But laws of many countries continue to treat different types of couples differently. And their children too. The LawsAndFamilies aims to document, highlight ...
Cortina, C., & Festy, P. (2014a). Identification of same-sex couples and families in censuses, registers and surveys. FamiliesAndSocieties Working Paper 8(2014), www.familiesandsocieties.eu/?page_id=131. Cortina, C., & Festy, P. (2014b), Comparative database on same-sex partnership in Europe: contribution with marriage and partnership statistics (paper for the FamiliesAndSocieties project). Paris & Madrid: Institut national d’études démographiques & Spanish National Research Council (text online at ...
The core component of the LawsAndFamilies Database is an interactive legal database. This database contains the results of a legal survey about families and laws beyond different-sex marriages among selected legal experts in over 20 European countries. It looks at the legal aspects of family diversity and distinguishes between three broad categories of legal family formats for different-sex and/or same-sex ...
