LAW 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Domestic Violence, Sampling Bias, Sister Wives
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Polygamy in canada: responding to cultural and religious diversity in regulating adult relationships. Themes: family law both reflects values and beliefs of a society and reinforces family ideology, family law reflects basic canadian family values, and has evolved over time, enormous changes in family behaviours, values and law in. We have a broader range of relationships are recognized, compared to (cid:373)ost so(cid:272)ietites. Ho(cid:449)(cid:448)e(cid:396) (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:396)e(cid:272)og(cid:374)ize pol(cid:455)ga(cid:373)(cid:455): our law is unitary as opposed to personal (applies to all regardless of religion or nationality) courts can take jurisdiction in family cases if spouses are habitual residents of canada. Sociolegal context (canada: increasingly diverse society, due in part to immigration. Toronto id the most diverse city in the world. Islam is the fastest growing religion in canada. Multicultural and religious issues: should we as a western state prohibit familial behaviours of immigration populations that are inconsistent with traditional.
