The Romanian Family during the Communist Regime. Legislative Continuity and Change
The Romanian Family during the Communist Regime. Legislative Continuity and Change

Summary/Abstract: The formula “The family – the base cell of the society” has never been more meaningful than during the communist period. The state policy regarding the family, meant to charge it with the responsibilities of giving birth to and educating the “new man”, regulated the life of individuals down to the details regarding their intimate life – citizens turned into comrades. The present study follows the evolution of the laws regarding the family throughout the whole communist period (1948 – 1989) in two aspects: on one hand it analyzes the laws and their features and, on another hand, it integrates the communist laws in the Romanian pre- and post-communist legislative context. Such a structure serves our intention of not just drawing the particular context of the studied period, but to reveal, on a long term, the features of this system which worked for more than 50 years, features which brought the Romanian communist society its undesired fame and made it unique.

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