Word: spain
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...What makes this 40-year-old different from millions of other hard-working Spanish fathers is that his partner is a man. One issue, at least, appears to be resolved: Carrasco says he and Javier Dorca, his boyfriend of eight years, plan to tie the knot next year under Spain's landmark 2005 gay-marriage legislation. "Javier has always wanted to get married," says the Barcelona hairdresser, who split up with his wife 10 years ago after finally acknowledging - to himself and others - that he's gay. "Emotionally I don't need marriage. But it's my right...
...less grounded in faith and marriage. In 1975, 10,895 Spanish children were born out of wedlock; by 2006, it was 137,041. "Spanish family patterns have changed beyond recognition," says María del Mar González, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Seville. "Spain came late to democracy, but we have lost no time catching...
...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 social legislation has made Spain a paragon of progressive family law. Popular Party challenger Mariano Rajoy has attempted to tap into what he sees as an underlying distrust of those rapid changes, but even he shies away from addressing them directly because he is aware that his allies in the Catholic...
...rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized divorce in 1981, but a recent reform allowing couples to accelerate the divorce process has caused those numbers to skyrocket. Spain now has one divorce for every 2.3 marriages - an increase of 74% in the past two years alone...
...promoting divorce, just making it more accessible." Like him, sociologist Inés Alberdi sees little grounds for concern. "The number of divorces may have climbed, but the number of separations has decreased by almost the same amount," she says. "Before, when it came to divorce, Spain had very strange practices. Now we're more like other countries in Europe...