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Critically evaluate the extent to which marriage has been and is likely to remain a convenient legal concept in regulating the family.
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Question: Critically evaluate the extent to which marriage has been and is likely to remain a convenient legal concept in regulating the family. The institution of marriage has always been perceived as the cornerstone of society1. It is the organising concept or nucleus around which society has traditionally regulated all important aspects of family life2. Although it may mean different things to different people today it is traditionally the means by which legitimate, heterosexual, familial relations have always been created in English law3. As more couples choose to live outside the formal institution of marriage so legal regulation of familial relations has also changed4. The answer will focus on tracking and explaining changing patterns of relationships, family forms and living arrangements and analyse these changes and same-sex cohabitation and how likely marriage will remain the convenient legal concept. As trends in this issue are having demographic consequences and policy implications,...
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