La vie à deux hors mariage : du juridique au politique dans le postcommunisme roumain

摘要

This article analyses the legal and political issues that govern the spreading phenomenon of unmarried couples living together in post-communist Romania. It intends to show that recent legal reforms remain attached to a highly conservative concept of family life. Despite European directives on gender equality, Romanian legal standards are far from being adapted to the diversity of conjugal configurations now seen in society. Rather than perceive the fundamental historical fact of dissociation between parentage and conjugal ties, the Romanian legislator sees the couple only through the prism of its potential reproductive function. Life for unmarried couples : from law to politics in post-communist Romania