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Article: Marriage, cohabitation, and same-sex marriage.
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- Independent Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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In this article, I explore some important limits to freedom imposed by family law and contribute to the recent debate about cohabitation and marriage. In particular, I consider a very heated topic at present internationally: Does the extension of marriage fights to homosexual cohabitants have any merit? To answer this question, I inquire into the relationship between marriage and cohabitation. Marriage represents a standard contract into which heterosexuals may opt, although increasingly they avoid doing so; homosexual couples, along with several other groups, such as nonintimate heterosexual cohabitants, are at present commonly prohibited from opting in. Following an ...