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Gracia Sánchez doesn't stray far from her father's thinking, but says the changes in Spain since her childhood are "mostly for the better." As a devout Catholic, however, she opposes the Zapatero revolution. "We've gone a step farther than was requested," she says. "Gay marriage...
Carrasco represents a new twist on what family now means in this once rigidly traditional Catholic land. But gay marriage and adoption rights are only the most recent and controversial changes in a nation that has undergone an epochal shift since sloughing off the stifling certainties of dictatorship a mere...
The effects of this new and evolving family structure are reshaping Spain's economic and social future. In the March 9 elections, Spanish voters will decide whether to give a second term to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the unlikely revolutionary whose four-year overhaul of...
José Francisco Romo Adanero, a sociologist at Madrid's Catholic University of San Carlos, would respectfully disagree. He worries that the rush to abandon Spain's established ways undermines its future. "There is a terrible hate for tradition," says Romo. "[Spaniards] today are taught that if you're a...
A Catholic Legacy Even before 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella vanquished Granada, the last stronghold of Muslim rule on the Iberian peninsula, the Roman Catholic Church set a rigorous religious tone for Spain. For centuries, the Catholic faith - and the patriarchal family structure that it inspired - was the...