Gresham College Lectures

Civil Partnerships

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Since 2004 two men or two women may enter a legally recognised union that carries many, but not all, of the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage. This is a trend throughout the Western World. How has civil partnership become established, and should it be recognised as marriage?

This is a part of the lecture series, Family Relationships and the Law since the 1960's.

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