Numbering same-sex couples in censuses and population registers

Enumerating same-sex couples in censuses and population registers

The recommendations recently issued by the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) for the next round of population and housing censuses underline for the first time that some countries might find it in their interest to enumerate same-sex couples. Many pitfalls can be expected when such a sensitive topic is newly included in a census. The experience of the few western countries that have al...

Assisted Reproduction in Same Sex Couples

M.V. Sauer (ed.), Principles of Oocyte and Embryo Donation, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2392-7_22, © Springer-Verlag London 2013 In recent years a growing recognition of same sex unions as culturally and socially acceptable has led inevitably to a parallel acceptance of such unions as a foundation for family. Advances in gay rights, the liberalization of legal restraints, and the increasing availabi...

Same-sex Couples Marry in Massachusetts

[Gestational surrogacy for same-sex couples].

• Center for Surrogate Parenting (CSP) is the first center in the world to help a same-sex couple in 1989. Sensible Surrogacy also supports same-sex couples. They believe that regardless of the gender of your partner, everyone who wants to be a parent should be able to have a child. • In general, religious and conservative groups tend to be opposed to surrogacy and consider it to be “anti-life....

Numbering the nationalities: ethnic minorities in Norwegian population censuses 1845-1930

Between 1845 and 1930 the relatively small minority groups in Norway – the Samis and Kvens – were counted in Norwegian censuses on the basis of ‘objective’ criteria settled by the State’s Central Bureau of Statistics. The censuses data supplied a foundation for the repressive policy towards minorities. But in identifying alien nationalities within the Norwegian borders, the census classiŽcation...