Interesting item on today's Woman's Hour. They were talking about a court challenge to remove discrimination in civil partnerships to allow normal heterosexual couples to have the same rights as homosexuals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06k9bzw One advantage for family historians would be that the mothers' names would be records - there have been calls for this to be added to marriage records. One couple on the programme have devised a surname for their children by combining both their surnames. That might cause confusion for future family historians!