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Background Various family forms are open to different-sex and/or same-sex couples: marriage, registered partnership, formalized cohabitation, informal cohabitation. The level of legal consequences (rights and obligations) of these family forms varies …

Background The present research aims at gathering information on how LGBT individuals are living through the ongoing changes that are traversing Europe in terms of regulation of same-sex relationships. In a moment of transitions and strong public debates …

Background 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 …

News 20 April 2017 – Comparative analysis of data in the LawsAndFamilies Database published today More and more together: Legal family formats for same-sex and different-sex couples in European countries (edited by Kees Waaldijk; with contributions by …

Academic publications 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. …

Team Leiden Law School Kees Waaldijk  (professor of comparative sexual orientation law): project coordinator and primary investigator; conception of the  questionnaire and the database; editor of the content of the database; principal author of the …

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Team Zoom sur l'image Marie Digoix is social historian at INED (National Institute for Demographic Studies) Family Research Unit. Her research focuses on the evolution of family law in the Nordic countries, including gender and sexual equality, family …