The Dutch Approach To Informal Lifestyles: Family Function Over Family Form?

In this article, the Dutch approach to informal lifestyles will be analysed on the basis of legal developments during the period 1970–2006 in a number of legal areas, such as landlord and tenant law, inheritance tax law, and social security law. The debate between family function and family form is the point of departure. This is highly relevant, since the number of couples living together unmarried is steadily increasing in the Netherlands. Non-marital cohabitation actually consists of a number of different types, including pre-marital, post-marital, and long-term cohabitation. However, surpr... Mehr ...