LAW 201 Lecture 8: LAW201 Lecture 8 - March 7th, 2017
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Regulating adult relationships in an increasingly diverse society: cultural & social context, challenge for lawmakers, courts, parliament/legislatures, socio-legal research issues. Historical approach to marriage: since the begin of common law, marriage was monogamous heterosexual union, marriage defined as the voluntary union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others - Hyde v hyde (1866: in 2005, canada changed the definition of marriage to allow two persons of the same sex to marry . Increasingly diverse society, due in part to immigration: islam is fastest growing religion in canada, many immigrant cultures are patriarchal. Multicultural issues: should a western state prohibit familial behaviours of immigrant populations that are inconsistent with. Polygamy: muslim (2: some countries in asia and africa still allow polygamy, but gradually being made illegal or restricted in some predominately muslim countries (tunisia and turkey, polygamy still widely practiced in some countries, some countries (ex.
