Main description:

This open access book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is at stake in the life of homosexuals in the field of family formation, parenting and parenthood, what it brings to everyday life, the support of the law, and what its absence implies. The book shows the paths leading to the adoption of laws while demographic analyses concentrate on the link between registration of same-sex marriages and same-sex parenting with a detailed focus on Spain. The sociological chapters in this book, based upon qualitative surveys in France, Iceland and Italy, underline how the importance of the legal structure influenced the daily life of homosexual families. As such this book is an interesting read to lawyers, demographers, sociologists, behavioural scientists, and all those working in the field.

Contents:

Chapter 1

Introduction - LGBTI questions

Marie Digoix

Chapter 2

What first, what later? Patterns in the legal recognition of same-sex partners in European countries

Kees Waaldijk

Chapter 3

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

Clara Cortina & Patrick Festy

Chapter 4

Same sex parents negotiating the law in Italy: between claims of recognition and practices of exclusion

Marina Franchi & Giulia Selmi

Chapter 5

Same sex families challenging norms and the law in France

Matthias Thibeaud

Chapter 6.

LGBT desires in family land: parenting, from social acceptance to social pressure in Iceland

Marie Digoix

Chapter 7

Postface - After legal recognition

Wilfired Rault

After legal recognition

Wilfried Rault

After legal recognition

Wilfried Rault