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Sex and the Family

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Date:30 AUG 2005

CHRIS BARTON, Retired Family Law Teacher and Vice-President, Family Mediators Association. Although the law has recently institutionalised same-sex relationships, there has been little improved understanding of the many less apparent manifestations of sexual diversity. Has there been much other change in family laws interest in sex? Chris Barton looks at what the law has, and has not, achieved.

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