Is French society evolving faster than those governing the country? The answer is yes if we believe in the latest survey “Living conditions and aspirations” of Crédoc (Research centre for the study and monitoring of living standards). (more...)
The Cour de cassation, the highest court of criminal and civil matters in France, took on July 8, 2010 a landmark decision that could be a step towards the legal recognition of same-sex couple adoption in France. The Court decided that a certain US ruling made by the County of DeKalb in Detroit, Georgia, which recognized two women as the same child’s legal parents, should be put into effect in France.
By acknowledging a legal parent-child relationship between a French woman and her American partner’s birth daughter, the French tribunal recognized for the first time that a child could have two parents of the same sex. (more...)
