Adult romantic relationships as contexts of human development: A multimethod comparison of same-sex couples with opposite-sex dating, engaged, and married dyads.

Power is fundamental to romantic relationships; Relationship Power (RP) affects personal andrelationship outcomes. The current goals are to examine a) associations between RP and personality and Masculinity/Femininity, and b) effect relationship context (same-sex or opposite-sex relationship) has on these associations. We will run multiple regressions, separately, for each personality, Masculinity, and Femininity trait to evaluate a) the main effect on RP controlling forage covariates, and b) the interaction effect between the respective trait and relationship-type on RP. Significant associations between the 7 traits under investigation and RP would confirm the hypotheses. Significance of the interaction term for personality showing greater association in same-sex couples, as well as significance of mas/fem showing greater associations with RP inopposite-sex couples would confirm the hypotheses regarding the importance of relationship context.

Download Full-text

The Missing Concept of Cohabitation of the Couples of the Opposite-Sex in de facto Unions in the Czech Civil Code

10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9981-2021-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Zdeňka Králíčková

Keyword(s):

Civil Code ◽

Same Sex ◽

Reasonable Time ◽

Legal Rules ◽

Married Mother ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Registered Partnership ◽

The Status ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

Married Mothers

The paper deals with couples in de facto unions, especially the ones formed by a man and a woman. It seeks to define cohabitation and differentiate the rights and duties of cohabitees from the ones connected with the status relations between both the opposite-sex couples (marriage) and the same-sex couples (registered partnership). As there are seldom any kinds of agreements between cohabitees, special attention is devoted to the relevant legal rules in all the Books of the Czech Civil Code and their applicability to cohabitees during their relationship and after the break-up or upon the death of one of them. It is stressed that there is no difference between children born out of wedlock and within marriage. Once parenthood is legally established, there is no discrimination of non-married mothers and non-married fathers towards the children. And besides, there are special provisions that protect the weaker party: property claims of the non-married mother from the child´s father for a reasonable time and within adequate limits.

Download Full-text

Marriage: Obligations, Benefits, and Access

Just Married ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691166483.003.0006 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Stephen Macedo

Keyword(s):

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Special Obligations ◽

The Future ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

The Many

This chapter examines the many “legal incidents” of marriage: the specific benefits, responsibilities, obligations, and protections that are associated with marriage by law. While critics focus on the special privileges or benefits that spouses acquire in marriage, those are balanced by special obligations. The chapter suggests that the whole package seems reasonably appropriate for both opposite-sex and same-sex couples. It also considers the ways in which marriage seems to promote the good of spouses, children, and society, along with the class divide that now characterizes marriage and parenting. It argues that this class divide, not same-sex marriage, is the great challenge for the future.

Download Full-text

Same-Sex Marriage. Vermont Supreme Court Holds State Must Extend Same-Sex Couples the Same Benefits as Married Opposite-Sex Couples. Baker v. State, 744 A.2d 864 (Vt. 1999)

Harvard Law Review ◽

10.2307/1342450 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 113 (7) ◽

pp. 1882 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Supreme Court ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Opposite Sex

Download Full-text

Bisexual Man Experiences Regarding Intimate Sexual Relationship Injayapura City2013

KnE Social Sciences ◽

10.18502/kss.v1i1.448 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Maria CY Hukubun

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Junior High School ◽

Design Method ◽

Bisexual Men ◽

Snowball Sampling ◽

Same Sex ◽

Thick Description ◽

Sexually Transmitted ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Opposite Sex

<p>Bisexuals are individuals who Involved and enjoyed sexual activities with same sex and different sex. Bisexual men having intercourse by oral, anal and vaginal. According to the data from the Center for Reproductive Health in Jayapura in 2013, there was one case cervicitis on bisexual men which is known from 95 cases of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). This research study aimed to describe bisexual men's sexual experiences. A qualitative design method was used with phenomenology approach; informants Involved in this research were 5 people. The selections of informants were using snowball sampling method. Researchers used members to check and thick description to the invalidity of the data. Fifth informants have a sense of attraction to opposite sex couples while they were in junior and high school. Informants interested in the same sex when in junior high school, and college. In addition, one of the informants attracted to the same sex when he became adult and had a work. Four informants did not consistently use condoms. There are 10 to 30 of same-sex couples that performed sex relation for the first time. There were about 10 people who did not get married and have sexual partners of the opposite sex until today based on the informant. The four informants were not consistently used condoms and there was one informant who did not use condom</p>

Download Full-text

Response to “Cloning and Infertility” by Carson Strong (CQ Vol 7, No 3)

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics ◽

10.1017/s0963180199003138 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 364-368 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Timothy F. Murphy

Keyword(s):

Somatic Cell ◽

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer ◽

Nuclear Transfer ◽

Human Cloning ◽

Sex Partners ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

Infertile Couples

Carson Strong has argued that if human cloning were safe it should be available to some infertile couples as a matter of ethics and law. He holds that cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) should be available as a reproductive option for infertile couples who could not otherwise have a child genetically related to one member of the couple. In this analysis, Strong overlooks an important category of people to whom his argument might apply, couples he has not failed to consider elsewhere. In this discussion, however, Strong refers exclusively to opposite sex couples facing obstacles such as surgically removed ovaries and the inability to produce sperm. In fact, however, there are many adult couples who, while fertile in and of themselves, are not fertile as couples. This group includes not only opposite sex couples but coupled same sex partners as well. I believe the defenses Strong offers regarding the use of SCNT by opposite sex infertile couples would extend to same sex couples for two reasons. First, some same sex couples might face the inability to have a genetically related child, and second, Strong's arguments ultimately ground a general defense of SCNT independent of the question of a couple's fertility.

Download Full-text

INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND THE SURVIVOR OF AN UNFORMALISED SAME-SEX CONJUGAL RELATIONSHIP: Laubscher No v Duplan 2017 (2) SA 264 (CC)

Obiter ◽

10.17159/obiter.v39i1.11408 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Michael Cameron Wood-Bodley

Keyword(s):

Constitutional Court ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Lesbian Relationship ◽

Substantive Equality ◽

Civil Union ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

Domestic Partnerships ◽

The Right

When a person dies intestate his or her heirs are determined by the provisions of section 1(1) and (2) of the Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987. Included amongst the heirs is the deceased’s surviving spouse, who either takes the entire estate or shares it with the deceased’s descendants (if any). Historically, the reference to “spouse” in the Act was taken to mean a person to whom the deceased was married in terms of the Marriage Act 25 of 1961. Accordingly, persons who were married to the deceased merely by religious rites and persons with whom the deceased was in a long-term conjugal relationship that was unformalised by marriage were excluded.The advent of constitutional democracy in South Africa resulted in a number of challenges to this status quo through reliance on the equality clause of the Bill of Rights. As a result of these challenges it has now been recognised that the survivor of a Hindu marriage, a monogamous Muslim marriage, and a polygynous Muslim marriage all have the right to inherit on intestacy as a “spouse”. Furthermore, in a groundbreaking decision in Gory v Kolver NO (Starke and others intervening) (2007 (4) SA 97 (CC)) the Constitutional Court recognised that the exclusion of the surviving partner of a gay or lesbian relationship from the right to inherit on intestacy was unconstitutional, and directed that the relevant sections of the Intestate Succession Act be amended by a reading-in of additional words to remedy the unconstitutionality. These words conferred the right to inherit on intestacy on the survivor of a monogamous permanent same-sex partnership in which the partners undertook reciprocal duties of support. At the time of writing no survivor of an unformalised opposite-sex relationship has challenged his or her exclusion from intestate succession. Possibly this reticence has been influenced by the decision in Volks NO v Robinson (2005 (5) BCLR 446 (CC)) (hereinafter “Volks”). In Volks the Constitutional Court held that it is not unconstitutional for the Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act 27 of 1990 to distinguish between married and unmarried persons by giving the survivor of a marriage a claim for reasonable maintenance against the estate of the deceased spouse but not giving a similar claim to the survivor of a relationship in which the parties did not marry.Paleker has raised the question whether the Gory order “must still be applied in light of the Civil Union Act” but he comes to no firm conclusion, and states tentatively that “if marriage … is a precondition for inheriting, persons in same-sex unions who have not solemnised their relationship after the coming into force of the Civil Union Act … may be precluded from inheriting intestate from each other”. On the other hand De Waal and Schoeman-Malan are clearly of the view that the order in the Gory case still operates and – whilst regarding the current position as “anomalous” – they state that it “will probably continue until the Domestic Partnerships Bill [GN36 in GG 30663 of 2008-1-14] eventually does become law”. This has also been the interpretation accepted by the Master’s office acting on advice from the Senior State Law Advisor. The different treatment accorded same-sex couples by the continued retention of the benefits conferred by Gory has been defended on the grounds of substantive equality, since many practical obstacles still stand in the way of same-sex couples formalising their relationships.The question of the continued applicability of the reading-in order in Gory has now come before the Constitutional Court in Laubscher NO v Duplan (2017 (2) SA 264 (CC)) and it is this case which is the focus of this note.

Download Full-text

The Importance of Intact Senses in Mating and Social Assessments Made by Deaf Individuals

Archives of Sexual Behavior ◽

10.1007/s10508-021-02016-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Anna Oleszkiewicz ◽

Paulina Idziak ◽

Marta Rokosz

Keyword(s):

Romantic Relationships ◽

Mate Selection ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Deaf People ◽

Same Sex ◽

Potential Partner ◽

Sensory Modalities ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

Multimodal Process

AbstractSocial perception is a multimodal process involving vision and audition as central input sources for human social cognitive processes. However, it remains unclear how profoundly deaf people assess others in the context of mating and social interaction. The current study explored the relative importance of different sensory modalities (vision, smell, and touch) in assessments of opposite- and same-sex strangers. We focused on potential sensory compensation processes in mate selection (i.e., increased importance of the intact senses in forming impressions of an opposite-sex stranger as a potential partner). A total of 74 deaf individuals and 100 normally hearing controls were included in the study sample. We found diminished importance of vision and smell in deaf participants compared with controls for opposite- and same-sex strangers, and increased importance of touch for the assessment of same-sex strangers. The results suggested that deaf people rely less on visual and olfactory cues in mating and social assessments, highlighting a possible role of sign language in shaping interpersonal tactile experience in non-romantic relationships.

Download Full-text

Marriage, Family, Discrimination & Contradiction: An Evaluation of the Legacy and Future of the European Court of Human Rights' Jurisprudence on LGBT Rights

German Law Journal ◽

10.1017/s2071832200017545 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 12 (10) ◽

pp. 1746-1763 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sarah Lucy Cooper

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Family Life ◽

European Convention ◽

Same Sex ◽

Registration System ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

European Court ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

Grand Chamber ◽

The Right

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been considering whether same-sex couples should have the rights to marry and to be recognized as a family under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) for over thirty years. In the 1980s the European Commission of Human Rights (the Commission) and the ECtHR respectively rejected the notion that same-sex relationships constituted a “family life” under Article 8 of the ECHR, and that post-operative transgendered persons had the right to marry under Article 12. However, throughout the 1990s and the first decade of the new millennium, the ECtHR handed down a body of judgments that incrementally liberalized these rights (albeit not always smoothly) in favor of LGBT persons. This evolution culminated in part on 24 June 2010, when the ECtHR passed judgment inSchalk and Kopf v. Austria.In that case the First Section of the ECtHR made a number of major, but seemingly contradictory rulings. For the first time in its history, the ECtHR ruled that same-sex relationships expressly constitute a “family life” under Article 8, and that the right to marry under Article 12 was not confined to opposite-sex couples in “all circumstances.” However, the ECtHR simultaneously ruled that Member States are under no obligation to protect that “family life,” by providing same-sex couples with access to marriage under Article 12, or an alternative registration system under Articles 8 and 14. The Grand Chamber denied the applicants' subsequent request for a referral.

Download Full-text