La nouvelle structure de la famille en Europe. Approche comparative. Le concubinage en France et en Roumanie
The new family structure in Europe. Comparative approach. Cohabitation in France and Romania

Summary/Abstract: Most researchers in the field of sociology of the family, but also several political and public actors support the idea that, during the last decades, the family of contemporary society has undergone profound transformations. The current image of the family is that of an institution which preserves the tradition of marriage. Current societies, European in general, and Romanian in particular, are evolving towards other types of values, because individualism and the satisfaction of the necessities closest to daily reality privilege material needs, while forgetting the spiritual part of the man and the couple. The Romanian family, under economic pressure and the declining standard of living, has known in its structure a series of alterations and changes which have had as negative manifestation the appearance of social phenomena such as family violence, conjugal dissatisfaction. . In this social context, contemporary societies are experiencing a significant drop in the number of marriages and an increase in the number of divorces. Thus, the structure of the family in Europe is changing, consensual union (concubinage) representing a form adopted particularly by young people, as a reaction to the difficulty of ensuring minimum economic and emotional conditions for starting a traditional family life.

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