Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers

We analyse same-sex partnership and family formation in Europe. We explore how the frequency of same-sex marriage or registered partnership can be associated to macro and micro factors and how parenting appears as a key determinant at both levels. We use the LawsAndFamilies Database, which includes...

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Autores: Cortina Trilla, Clara, Festy, Patrick
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Marriage
Same-sex couples
Family law
Same-sex family
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spelling Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbersCortina Trilla, ClaraFesty, PatrickMarriageSame-sex couplesFamily lawSame-sex familyWe analyse same-sex partnership and family formation in Europe. We explore how the frequency of same-sex marriage or registered partnership can be associated to macro and micro factors and how parenting appears as a key determinant at both levels. We use the LawsAndFamilies Database, which includes both data on legal developments in family laws and statistical data on the legal recognition of same-sex couples, marriage and registered partnership for a large set of countries. We also use the French census and the Spanish household survey for specific purposes. We first determine crude rates of legal recognition for gay, lesbian and different-sex couples for nine European countries in the period 1980-2017. We second consider macro factors by measuring the impact of legal consequences attached to couples' recognition on the frequency of same-sex marriage or registered partnering. We expect that the opening of parenting to same-sex couples will affect lesbian more than gay couples and result in more positive trends in women¿s nuptiality. We finally explore micro factors related to the family structure expecting that the presence of children will work as an incentive to marry.Springer2024202420202024info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/60344http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37054-1_3reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésDigoix M, editor. Same-sex families and legal recognition in Europe. Cham: Springer; c2020. p. 45-71European studies of population© The Author(s) 2020. This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/603442026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers
spellingShingle Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers
Cortina Trilla, Clara
Marriage
Same-sex couples
Family law
Same-sex family
title_short Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers
title_full Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers
title_fullStr Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers
title_full_unstemmed Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers
title_sort Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cortina Trilla, Clara
Festy, Patrick
author Cortina Trilla, Clara
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Festy, Patrick
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Marriage
Same-sex couples
Family law
Same-sex family
topic Marriage
Same-sex couples
Family law
Same-sex family
description We analyse same-sex partnership and family formation in Europe. We explore how the frequency of same-sex marriage or registered partnership can be associated to macro and micro factors and how parenting appears as a key determinant at both levels. We use the LawsAndFamilies Database, which includes both data on legal developments in family laws and statistical data on the legal recognition of same-sex couples, marriage and registered partnership for a large set of countries. We also use the French census and the Spanish household survey for specific purposes. We first determine crude rates of legal recognition for gay, lesbian and different-sex couples for nine European countries in the period 1980-2017. We second consider macro factors by measuring the impact of legal consequences attached to couples' recognition on the frequency of same-sex marriage or registered partnering. We expect that the opening of parenting to same-sex couples will affect lesbian more than gay couples and result in more positive trends in women¿s nuptiality. We finally explore micro factors related to the family structure expecting that the presence of children will work as an incentive to marry.
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