This document discusses how weddings have changed over the past 50 years from traditional religious ceremonies to more modern celebrations. Traditional elements like dresses, rings, and wedding cakes have become more elaborate and extravagant. Wedding locations have also diversified beyond churches to various outdoor settings. The document also outlines Spain's legalization of same-sex marriage and civil unions, as well as the country's history of fighting for women's rights and legal equality.
The document describes experiences visiting Romania, including interactions with the Romanian people and different groups within the country. It notes that most people had well-kept gardens and welcomed visitors with smiles. There were two types of Gypsies - those with comfortable, standard living conditions and those with poorer conditions where girls had children early with little education. Several cities were visited and described as green with fields but some roads were in poor condition. One city, Sibiu, had many restaurants and souvenir shops. A castle was seen with a well dug by Arabian prisoners and an inscription they left. Near a school was housing for students living far away with rooms and facilities.
Marriage can be defined in various ways depending on culture and location. In Ireland, marriage is legally defined as a union between a man and a woman, though some countries allow same-sex marriage. Cultural variations of marriage include minimum age, arranged vs chosen partners, number of partners (monogamy, polygamy, etc.), and wedding ceremonies and customs. For a marriage to be valid in Ireland, both partners must voluntarily enter, be over 18, be opposite sex, not currently married, and not closely blood related.
This Powerpoint Presentation was made for our subject Anthropology and I give credits to the sources that I've used in this presentation. I hope this will help you to understand When, Where, Why and How does Third Sex exist in our society.
This document discusses religion and family life in Britain. It finds that over 50% of Brits are not religious, Christianity has declined significantly since the 1950s, and religious knowledge is lacking. The traditional nuclear family has also changed, with rises in cohabitation, single-parent homes, and people delaying/avoiding marriage and children. Marriage rates have declined while divorce and remarriage have increased, resulting in more complex family forms today.
Marriage is a near universal social institution, but how it is understood varies significantly across cultures. While Western societies strongly associate marriage with love, other cultures view love and marriage separately or expect love to develop over time. All societies have rules around who can marry, including restrictions based on factors like gender and family relationships. Marriage serves to regulate sexuality, legitimize children, and expand social networks between families.
This document discusses the debate around gay marriage rights between religious groups and advocates for LGBT rights. It outlines how French President Francois Hollande legalized same-sex marriage and adoption in 2012 over fierce opposition from Catholic and other religious groups. While many countries have adopted laws allowing gay marriage, religious conservatives still view homosexuality as taboo. The document argues that LGBT individuals deserve to live with dignity and equal rights, and that societies need to become more accepting of different sexual orientations.
These people have all experienced divorce:
Divorce involves legally terminating a marriage through three stages - petition, decree nisi, and decree absolute. Not all petitions reach the final stage. Separation can be informal or legal, where a couple lives apart but remains married. Empty shell marriages exist in name only, though this type has declined with divorce availability increasing. Divorce rates account for population and marriages, usually shown as divorces per 1,000 couples. Approximately 40% of UK couples divorce, with rates peaking at 165,000 in 2004 but falling to 113,949 in 2009.
This document discusses key concepts related to family and identity. It examines how family is a primary socializing agent that teaches norms, values and language. It also looks at functionalist perspectives on the roles and functions of the family in society. The document then analyzes changes in family structures over time, including increases in cohabitation, divorce, and diversity of family forms. It explores cross-cultural variations and the influences of social class on family life.
The document describes experiences visiting Romania, including interactions with the Romanian people and different groups within the country. It notes that most people had well-kept gardens and welcomed visitors with smiles. There were two types of Gypsies - those with comfortable, standard living conditions and those with poorer conditions where girls had children early with little education. Several cities were visited and described as green with fields but some roads were in poor condition. One city, Sibiu, had many restaurants and souvenir shops. A castle was seen with a well dug by Arabian prisoners and an inscription they left. Near a school was housing for students living far away with rooms and facilities.
Marriage can be defined in various ways depending on culture and location. In Ireland, marriage is legally defined as a union between a man and a woman, though some countries allow same-sex marriage. Cultural variations of marriage include minimum age, arranged vs chosen partners, number of partners (monogamy, polygamy, etc.), and wedding ceremonies and customs. For a marriage to be valid in Ireland, both partners must voluntarily enter, be over 18, be opposite sex, not currently married, and not closely blood related.
This Powerpoint Presentation was made for our subject Anthropology and I give credits to the sources that I've used in this presentation. I hope this will help you to understand When, Where, Why and How does Third Sex exist in our society.
This document discusses religion and family life in Britain. It finds that over 50% of Brits are not religious, Christianity has declined significantly since the 1950s, and religious knowledge is lacking. The traditional nuclear family has also changed, with rises in cohabitation, single-parent homes, and people delaying/avoiding marriage and children. Marriage rates have declined while divorce and remarriage have increased, resulting in more complex family forms today.
Marriage is a near universal social institution, but how it is understood varies significantly across cultures. While Western societies strongly associate marriage with love, other cultures view love and marriage separately or expect love to develop over time. All societies have rules around who can marry, including restrictions based on factors like gender and family relationships. Marriage serves to regulate sexuality, legitimize children, and expand social networks between families.
This document discusses the debate around gay marriage rights between religious groups and advocates for LGBT rights. It outlines how French President Francois Hollande legalized same-sex marriage and adoption in 2012 over fierce opposition from Catholic and other religious groups. While many countries have adopted laws allowing gay marriage, religious conservatives still view homosexuality as taboo. The document argues that LGBT individuals deserve to live with dignity and equal rights, and that societies need to become more accepting of different sexual orientations.
These people have all experienced divorce:
Divorce involves legally terminating a marriage through three stages - petition, decree nisi, and decree absolute. Not all petitions reach the final stage. Separation can be informal or legal, where a couple lives apart but remains married. Empty shell marriages exist in name only, though this type has declined with divorce availability increasing. Divorce rates account for population and marriages, usually shown as divorces per 1,000 couples. Approximately 40% of UK couples divorce, with rates peaking at 165,000 in 2004 but falling to 113,949 in 2009.
This document discusses key concepts related to family and identity. It examines how family is a primary socializing agent that teaches norms, values and language. It also looks at functionalist perspectives on the roles and functions of the family in society. The document then analyzes changes in family structures over time, including increases in cohabitation, divorce, and diversity of family forms. It explores cross-cultural variations and the influences of social class on family life.
Changes in divorce law since 1949 have made divorce easier, quicker, and cheaper to obtain. The declining stigma around divorce and changing social attitudes toward marriage have contributed to rising divorce rates. Secularization and declining religious influence in society have reduced the view of marriage as a sacred, lifelong commitment. Rising expectations of marriage and unrealistic ideals promoted in media have led to more divorces when marriages do not meet high expectations. Greater independence and empowerment of women through paid work and women's rights movements have enabled more women to initiate divorces from unsatisfying marriages.
This document provides a review of marriage in England over time. It discusses how understandings of marriage have changed from being primarily an economic and social institution to one based more on love and personal commitment. It reviews key legal and cultural changes like the introduction of civil marriage and the legalization of same-sex marriage. While marriage rates have declined, attitudes toward the institution have remained mixed as cohabitation has risen as an alternative. The document examines how marriage is now understood through legal, social, religious and cultural lenses and explores how demographic trends show marriage has become more stratified socioeconomically.
Gay marriage and the rights of LGBTQ individuals have been a long struggle. The document discusses the history and definitions related to being gay as well as perspectives on gay marriage around the world. While some cultures are less accepting, many places in Europe, America and Australia have become more supportive with some countries legally recognizing gay marriage and providing protections. However, lack of acceptance and discrimination can negatively impact the mental and physical health of gay individuals. There is also debate around gay couples adopting children, though research suggests children of gay parents develop normally.
This document discusses the topic of love from various perspectives including psychology, biology, sociology, history and across different cultures. Some key points discussed include:
1. Jung viewed love as involving the ability to endure tensions between opposites in order to grow and transform.
2. Psychology sees love as a combination of passionate and companionate love while biology views it as a mammalian drive influenced by hormones and pheromones.
3. Views and practices of love vary widely across cultures and have changed over time, for example marriage transitioning from an arrangement to one based on love and new legal definitions and options for partnerships.
4. Modern ideas of love involve contradictions between new freedoms and traditional rules
The document discusses changes in modern families including:
1) More births are now occurring outside of marriage, around 44% in 2006 compared to around 9% in 1971, though many unmarried parents still live together.
2) Living alone has increased significantly, with around 1 in 3 households now containing only one person compared to 1 in 20 in 1901. Younger people are also more likely to live alone.
3) Marriage rates have declined in Britain while cohabitation without marriage has increased, with over 1.5 million cohabiting couples not marrying. Attitudes toward cohabitation have become more accepting.
France has a long history of religious marriage under the Catholic Church, but established civil marriage in 1787. The French Revolution in 1792 fully secularized marriage and gave control to the government. Traditional French wedding customs include getting engaged, choosing witnesses, and having the ceremony and celebration at the town hall and afterwards. However, marriage is becoming less common in France, with fewer religious people and more children born outside of marriage. The legal definition of marriage is also evolving, such as establishing civil unions and same-sex marriage.
This document discusses examining the traditional white wedding as an institutionalization of heterosexuality. It aims to explicate the underlying social, economic, and cultural patterns of current wedding trends to determine how heterosexuality is organized and institutionalized through weddings. The author argues that weddings are a concentrated site that operate and reproduce organized heterosexuality, yet they have been overlooked by researchers until recently. The white wedding and wedding industry provide clues about how meaning is given to heterosexuality and marriage in popular culture.
This document summarizes key points from a book that examines how heterosexuality is institutionalized through traditional white weddings. It discusses how weddings serve as a major cultural site for understanding how heterosexuality is organized. The book analyzes how the wedding industry promotes and naturalizes heterosexuality through popular culture representations of weddings. It also discusses theoretical frameworks like Jacques Lacan's concept of the imaginary and how they can help explain how weddings create and maintain the illusion that heterosexuality is innate and inevitable.
This document summarizes key points from a book that examines how heterosexuality is institutionalized through traditional white weddings. It discusses how weddings serve as a major cultural site for understanding how heterosexuality is organized. The book analyzes how the wedding industry promotes and naturalizes heterosexual norms. It also explores challenges to institutionalizing heterosexuality, such as feminism and LGBTQ rights movements, as well as how Jacques Lacan's concept of the imaginary is applied to understand the "heterosexual imaginary" that presents heterosexuality as natural and taken-for-granted.
This document discusses examining the traditional white wedding as an institutionalization of heterosexuality. It aims to explicate the underlying social, economic, and cultural patterns of current wedding trends to determine how heterosexuality is organized and institutionalized through weddings. The author argues that weddings are a concentrated site that operate and reproduce organized heterosexuality, yet they have been overlooked by researchers until recently. The white wedding and wedding industry provide clues about how meaning is given to heterosexuality and marriage in popular culture.
This document discusses examining the traditional white wedding as an institutionalization of heterosexuality. It aims to explicate the underlying social, economic, and cultural patterns of current wedding trends to determine how heterosexuality is organized and institutionalized through weddings. The author argues that weddings are a concentrated site that operates and reproduces organized heterosexuality, yet they have been overlooked by researchers until recently. The wedding industry plays a large role in perpetuating heterosexual norms through extensive marketing across various media. Historically, efforts to critically examine heterosexuality and its rules have faced legal and social sanctions.
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The document discusses different types of marriage practices around the world. It notes there is no single definition of marriage, and that heterosexual monogamous marriages are just one type. Other types include plural spouses or same-sex marriages. The document outlines rights conferred by marriage like establishing legal parents and inheritance. It also discusses rules around who can marry, exchanges like bridewealth and dowry, residence patterns, and divorce customs. Marriage serves different functions in various societies.
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Libyan culture places heavy importance on traditions and Islamic views. Marriages are typically arranged by parents without input from sons and daughters. Dating is frowned upon. Courtship involves families finding partners through social circles. Weddings are multi-day celebrations. Divorce is allowed but favors men, who can initiate it simply by repeating "I divorce you" three times. Women's rights have strengthened but domestic violence remains private due to social stigma. Modernization has increased dating and partner selection.
This document defines key terms related to LGBTI such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender. It discusses LGBTI culture and social movements aimed at social equality. It also covers annual LGBTI pride parades celebrated worldwide in June. The document examines the effect of media on representing LGBTI issues in popular culture and provides some examples of LGBTI news from around the world. Specifically within Turkey, it discusses the annual Istanbul gay pride parade and current laws and attitudes regarding LGBTI rights.
1) The divorce rate in the United States is the highest in the world, nearly twice as high as Canada and four times higher than Japan. 2) Factors that contribute to the high divorce rate include an emphasis on individualism over family, declining romantic love after the honeymoon phase ends, greater financial independence for women, stress from dual-career families, and easier legal access to divorce. 3) Those at greatest risk of divorce include young couples, couples with brief courtships, couples lacking financial stability, and couples where one or both partners have substance abuse problems.
The document discusses definitions of family across cultures, comparing traditional ideals of family in Japan and the United States, as well as marriage and divorce rates between the two countries. Japan traditionally valued multigenerational households with inheritance passed through sons, while the US ideal involved married couples with children, though modern families vary in both places. Divorce rates are higher in the US at around 3.4 per 1,000 people compared to around 1 in 4 marriages ending in divorce in Japan.
This document discusses transitions in American families and the high divorce rate in the United States. It notes that approximately 45% of American marriages end in divorce, which is higher than other countries. Risk factors for divorce are identified as being young, having a brief courtship, financial instability, unexpected pregnancy, substance abuse, having divorced parents, lack of religiosity, both partners having successful careers, and not yet having children. Most who divorce remarry within 5 years, creating more blended families. Cohabitation and singlehood are also on the rise in the US.
Both Japanese and Spanish cultures have seen significant changes to marriage traditions over time. Originally arranged for political and economic purposes, marriage is now based more on love. While values like family and elders' involvement remain important in both cultures, contemporary marriages allow more individual choice. Japanese weddings now incorporate both Shinto traditions and Western influences. Spanish weddings emphasize community and are often large multi-hour celebrations. Both cultures have moved from strictly defined gender roles to greater equality and women's participation in the workforce. Overall, modern marriages in Japan and Spain balance traditional cultural values with new customs and priorities like education and career opportunities.
Changes in divorce law since 1949 have made divorce easier, quicker, and cheaper to obtain. The declining stigma around divorce and changing social attitudes toward marriage have contributed to rising divorce rates. Secularization and declining religious influence in society have reduced the view of marriage as a sacred, lifelong commitment. Rising expectations of marriage and unrealistic ideals promoted in media have led to more divorces when marriages do not meet high expectations. Greater independence and empowerment of women through paid work and women's rights movements have enabled more women to initiate divorces from unsatisfying marriages.
This document provides a review of marriage in England over time. It discusses how understandings of marriage have changed from being primarily an economic and social institution to one based more on love and personal commitment. It reviews key legal and cultural changes like the introduction of civil marriage and the legalization of same-sex marriage. While marriage rates have declined, attitudes toward the institution have remained mixed as cohabitation has risen as an alternative. The document examines how marriage is now understood through legal, social, religious and cultural lenses and explores how demographic trends show marriage has become more stratified socioeconomically.
Gay marriage and the rights of LGBTQ individuals have been a long struggle. The document discusses the history and definitions related to being gay as well as perspectives on gay marriage around the world. While some cultures are less accepting, many places in Europe, America and Australia have become more supportive with some countries legally recognizing gay marriage and providing protections. However, lack of acceptance and discrimination can negatively impact the mental and physical health of gay individuals. There is also debate around gay couples adopting children, though research suggests children of gay parents develop normally.
This document discusses the topic of love from various perspectives including psychology, biology, sociology, history and across different cultures. Some key points discussed include:
1. Jung viewed love as involving the ability to endure tensions between opposites in order to grow and transform.
2. Psychology sees love as a combination of passionate and companionate love while biology views it as a mammalian drive influenced by hormones and pheromones.
3. Views and practices of love vary widely across cultures and have changed over time, for example marriage transitioning from an arrangement to one based on love and new legal definitions and options for partnerships.
4. Modern ideas of love involve contradictions between new freedoms and traditional rules
The document discusses changes in modern families including:
1) More births are now occurring outside of marriage, around 44% in 2006 compared to around 9% in 1971, though many unmarried parents still live together.
2) Living alone has increased significantly, with around 1 in 3 households now containing only one person compared to 1 in 20 in 1901. Younger people are also more likely to live alone.
3) Marriage rates have declined in Britain while cohabitation without marriage has increased, with over 1.5 million cohabiting couples not marrying. Attitudes toward cohabitation have become more accepting.
France has a long history of religious marriage under the Catholic Church, but established civil marriage in 1787. The French Revolution in 1792 fully secularized marriage and gave control to the government. Traditional French wedding customs include getting engaged, choosing witnesses, and having the ceremony and celebration at the town hall and afterwards. However, marriage is becoming less common in France, with fewer religious people and more children born outside of marriage. The legal definition of marriage is also evolving, such as establishing civil unions and same-sex marriage.
This document discusses examining the traditional white wedding as an institutionalization of heterosexuality. It aims to explicate the underlying social, economic, and cultural patterns of current wedding trends to determine how heterosexuality is organized and institutionalized through weddings. The author argues that weddings are a concentrated site that operate and reproduce organized heterosexuality, yet they have been overlooked by researchers until recently. The white wedding and wedding industry provide clues about how meaning is given to heterosexuality and marriage in popular culture.
This document summarizes key points from a book that examines how heterosexuality is institutionalized through traditional white weddings. It discusses how weddings serve as a major cultural site for understanding how heterosexuality is organized. The book analyzes how the wedding industry promotes and naturalizes heterosexuality through popular culture representations of weddings. It also discusses theoretical frameworks like Jacques Lacan's concept of the imaginary and how they can help explain how weddings create and maintain the illusion that heterosexuality is innate and inevitable.
This document summarizes key points from a book that examines how heterosexuality is institutionalized through traditional white weddings. It discusses how weddings serve as a major cultural site for understanding how heterosexuality is organized. The book analyzes how the wedding industry promotes and naturalizes heterosexual norms. It also explores challenges to institutionalizing heterosexuality, such as feminism and LGBTQ rights movements, as well as how Jacques Lacan's concept of the imaginary is applied to understand the "heterosexual imaginary" that presents heterosexuality as natural and taken-for-granted.
This document discusses examining the traditional white wedding as an institutionalization of heterosexuality. It aims to explicate the underlying social, economic, and cultural patterns of current wedding trends to determine how heterosexuality is organized and institutionalized through weddings. The author argues that weddings are a concentrated site that operate and reproduce organized heterosexuality, yet they have been overlooked by researchers until recently. The white wedding and wedding industry provide clues about how meaning is given to heterosexuality and marriage in popular culture.
This document discusses examining the traditional white wedding as an institutionalization of heterosexuality. It aims to explicate the underlying social, economic, and cultural patterns of current wedding trends to determine how heterosexuality is organized and institutionalized through weddings. The author argues that weddings are a concentrated site that operates and reproduces organized heterosexuality, yet they have been overlooked by researchers until recently. The wedding industry plays a large role in perpetuating heterosexual norms through extensive marketing across various media. Historically, efforts to critically examine heterosexuality and its rules have faced legal and social sanctions.
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This document summarizes a lesson on where society is headed given its adoption of pagan worldviews. It discusses trends like the breakdown of the family and traditional marriage, widespread pornography use, and the rapid rise of LGBTQ ideology. It argues that society is promoting a pagan "oneism" that seeks to eliminate all spiritual and cultural binaries. If unchecked, this could lead to a society that destroys the distinctions between right and wrong, human and divine, and more. The lesson aims to explore this direction, contrast it with biblical Christianity, and suggest how Christians can best respond.
The document discusses different types of marriage practices around the world. It notes there is no single definition of marriage, and that heterosexual monogamous marriages are just one type. Other types include plural spouses or same-sex marriages. The document outlines rights conferred by marriage like establishing legal parents and inheritance. It also discusses rules around who can marry, exchanges like bridewealth and dowry, residence patterns, and divorce customs. Marriage serves different functions in various societies.
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Libyan culture places heavy importance on traditions and Islamic views. Marriages are typically arranged by parents without input from sons and daughters. Dating is frowned upon. Courtship involves families finding partners through social circles. Weddings are multi-day celebrations. Divorce is allowed but favors men, who can initiate it simply by repeating "I divorce you" three times. Women's rights have strengthened but domestic violence remains private due to social stigma. Modernization has increased dating and partner selection.
This document defines key terms related to LGBTI such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender. It discusses LGBTI culture and social movements aimed at social equality. It also covers annual LGBTI pride parades celebrated worldwide in June. The document examines the effect of media on representing LGBTI issues in popular culture and provides some examples of LGBTI news from around the world. Specifically within Turkey, it discusses the annual Istanbul gay pride parade and current laws and attitudes regarding LGBTI rights.
1) The divorce rate in the United States is the highest in the world, nearly twice as high as Canada and four times higher than Japan. 2) Factors that contribute to the high divorce rate include an emphasis on individualism over family, declining romantic love after the honeymoon phase ends, greater financial independence for women, stress from dual-career families, and easier legal access to divorce. 3) Those at greatest risk of divorce include young couples, couples with brief courtships, couples lacking financial stability, and couples where one or both partners have substance abuse problems.
The document discusses definitions of family across cultures, comparing traditional ideals of family in Japan and the United States, as well as marriage and divorce rates between the two countries. Japan traditionally valued multigenerational households with inheritance passed through sons, while the US ideal involved married couples with children, though modern families vary in both places. Divorce rates are higher in the US at around 3.4 per 1,000 people compared to around 1 in 4 marriages ending in divorce in Japan.
This document discusses transitions in American families and the high divorce rate in the United States. It notes that approximately 45% of American marriages end in divorce, which is higher than other countries. Risk factors for divorce are identified as being young, having a brief courtship, financial instability, unexpected pregnancy, substance abuse, having divorced parents, lack of religiosity, both partners having successful careers, and not yet having children. Most who divorce remarry within 5 years, creating more blended families. Cohabitation and singlehood are also on the rise in the US.
Both Japanese and Spanish cultures have seen significant changes to marriage traditions over time. Originally arranged for political and economic purposes, marriage is now based more on love. While values like family and elders' involvement remain important in both cultures, contemporary marriages allow more individual choice. Japanese weddings now incorporate both Shinto traditions and Western influences. Spanish weddings emphasize community and are often large multi-hour celebrations. Both cultures have moved from strictly defined gender roles to greater equality and women's participation in the workforce. Overall, modern marriages in Japan and Spain balance traditional cultural values with new customs and priorities like education and career opportunities.
1. Building EUROPE
Together
A Comenius Project (Multilateral Partnership) with
partners from Portugal (coordinator), Czech
Republic, Romania, Turkey, Poland and Spain
3. Introduction
Nowadays, religion is not as important as it
used to be in people´s lives.
The weddings have changed in the past 50
years. In the past everything was pure and
innocent, and now the weddings are original
and very far from the traditional ones.
5. Differences
One of the factors that has changed more in the
last decades are the weddings. In the past, a
wedding was the most important moment in
the life of a person, but now it is secondary, and
it’s like a mere celebration.
6. Dresses now
• The dresses have also changed. Now are more
original, and there are a lot of types and
styles.
7. Old Rings
• One of the most important things in a wedding
is the ring. In the past they were simple and
modest, and had engraved the names of the
groom and the bride and the date. They were
usually made of gold.
8. Modern Rings
• Now, the same as with
the dresses, the rings can
be extravagant and
overelaborate, there
aren’t limits. Sometimes,
the ring is even tattooed.
9. Cakes
• The TV, and the culture in general, has a
strong influence on the life of the people.
Hence, the wedding cakes have evolved from
simple pies to spectacular edible sculptures
10. Places
• In the past, the wedding
ritual was celebrated in a
church or a cathedral. Now,
the places can vary from
beaches to the mountaintop,
passing from the bottom of
the sea.
11. • When the couple leaves
from church, it is very
Traditions
common to throw rice to
them. Its a fertility symbol
• Another thing that is very
common is that the bride
wears something blue,
something old, something
new and something
borrowed.
• A Spanish old tradition is
the “arras”, thirteen coins
that the groom gives to
the bride.
14. RELIGION
Religious WEDDINGS
The religious weddings are celebrated by a
ceremony officiated by a priest, in churches,
cathedrals, hermitages…
15. Civil Ceremonies
The civil ceremonies are also celebrated in Spain
and it’s the only way a homosexual couple can
LAW
marry.
In 2005 the PSOE passed a law approving this type
of same-sex marriage.
16. Divorce
• The divorce is the ending of the
LAW
marriage, it’s the process that has the
intention to finish with married life.
17. • THE BEGINNING OF THE
DIVORCES: In 1981, Spain
LAW
passed the law by which
divorce was a
accepted
• 2.DIVORCE BEFORE A NOTARY PUBLIC
With the new govern of
Mariano Rajoy, you can
have a divorce with a
mutual accord, before a notary
public.
18. • 3. DIFERENTS
LAW
TYPES OF DIVORCE
• 4. MINIMUM
DURATION OF ONE
MARRIAGE
19. • 5. A NEW MARRIAGE. Once you have
had the divorce, you can celebrate a
new marriage without having to wait.
LAW
• 6. CUSTODY OF THE CHILDREN. After
the divorce the custody of the children
is for both, or it can be kept by one of
the partners , having the other one the
right to visit and spend
time with his/ her children.
20. De facto marriage
LAW
• The facto marriage is the stable union
between two people living together, but they
aren’t united by marriage.
• To be recognized as a “a facto marriage”, the
union between two heterosexual
or homosexual people must be
made public and a minimum of two
years of life together is required.
21. • To cancel one of these unions one of the
following events must happen:
LAW
a) The death of some of the members.
b) The marriage of the couple or one of its
members.
c) By mutual agreement.
d) Unilateral will of one of its members.
e) Not having a life together for the period of
one year.
22. • Though civil marriages and De facto
unions seem to have the same rights, in
fact, they are not totally equal. For
example, in the event of one of the
partners’ death, conditions to get a
widower pension are far more strict in
the case of De facto unions. This way,
widows and widowers a less protected
by the law
24. The fight for the equality of the
women
The fall of the monarchy was a transformation of the country, because with
the Republican-Socialist government in 1934, equal rights between men and
women were achieved (Article 43 of the 1931 Constitution).
25. Numerous women's
organizations emerged.
Women's rights
associations such as
the Women's Section
of the Falange, who
wanted to be at the
front to care for
political prisoners
and their families ...;
or women's
organizations as
Antifascist Women, for
democracy
against FASCISM.
26. With the arrival of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, it became
apparent the need for women to hold positions abandoned by the
men to go to battle. Due to situations of poverty, absence of the
breadwinner ... women had to increase their work both domestically
and outside the house. With the war, feelings of inferiority and
subordination of women faded and many of them had access to male-
dominated areas.
27. For many centuries, it was
considered that women should be
under the authority of man, they
were considerate less intelligent.
A married woman couldn’t travel,
or work, or open a checking
account without the authority of
the husband or father until 1970.
28. There was a very intense fight to obtain the
equal rights for women. One of the most
wanted rights was the right to vote.
29. In Spain, the vote to women was granted on
October 1st 1931.
With the return of democracy
and the Constitution
of 1978 the legal equality
between men and
women was established.
30. The most age in woman
• A Spanish law in force until 1972 considered
that the woman wasn’t able to live on her
own until the age of 25, and therefore had to
seek permission from his father to become
independent.
31.
32. Homosexuality is a sexual orientation between people
of the same sex. Initially it was considered a disease or a disorder
and required medical help. Since 1973, the international
scientific community considered that homosexuality is not a disease.
The legal and social situation of homosexual people varies from
one country to another.
33. Homosexuality has been present in societies since ancient times,
for example, in ancient Rome and Greece, it was accepted that a young
boy and an old man were together.
34. Around the world countries that accept homosexuality but it is still illegal in 76
countries.
Countries that accept homosexual marriage: The Netherlands (2001), Belgium
(2002), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2008),
Sweden(2009 ), Portugal (2010) and Argentina (2010).
There are very few countries that accept homosexual people adopting children. In
Europe, countries that accept homosexuality are 44 countries.
35. In some schools teachers
are already teaching
children to accept
relationships
and weddings between
two men and two women.
36. In Spain, homosexuality is accepted since 1979. Adoption is
also accepted since 2003. There are countries in which
homosexuality can be a reason for imprisonment or even
death.
37. The weddings between people of the same-sex was legalized in Spain in 2005.
The PSOE passed the law of the same-sex wedding on the 30th of June 2005,
and was officially passed on 3rd of July 2005.
A 66% of the people supported same-sex weddings but the other people
organized demonstrations against it. A big rival was the Church. They are still
against that law.
Today, homosexuals have the same rights and duties as any other citizen. But
with the arrival
of the PP government this may
change, they want to derogate
laws that allows gay marriage
and adoption in same-sex couples.
38. “Gay Pride Day” is a date on which homosexual people do
some annual events to show the tolerance to the
homosexuals. It is usually celebrated in July or June.
39. • Noelia
• Ada
• Sara
• Abel
• Nathalia
• Ivan
• Xavi