Dear Juhi Naseem . There should be a comprehensive legislation to recognize live in relationships that consider each member of a family. So as each member be treated in a fair way.
Recognizing such relationships officially may encourage extramarital relations, but legal protection must be provided to all children, regardless of the type of relationship that they emerge from.
Juhi Naseem These are matters of personal law. The conventional idea of personal law is intwined with the concept of the freedom of religion. Freedom of religion, as far as I understand it, (my personal opinion) should involve if not involves already a duty,- "if you claim yourself following a particular religion, you can not denounce the laws of that religion ratified by your national law". A deviation of it may harm others' right of religious freedom particularly their sentiments. Let's put it in an illustrative way- if a person in India claims himself as a Muslim, he can not marry a Hindu going beyond the limit of his religious restrictions the same way an Indian can not claim himself as an Indian in one fine morning and and then propagate India as a colony leased to Nehru for 100 years the next evening.... when two people are involved in a live in or out of marriage intimate relationship, it has nothing to do with the rules regarding matrimonial relation in Indian personal laws in most cases. But when a child is born out of it, that involves legitimacy within the definition of respective personal law of his/her parents. For Hindus it may be okay as live in may be termed at least as one of 8 forms of marriage mentioned in the sastra. But what about the others? One cannot superimpose national law over personal law in a completely audacious and arbitrary way.....
Simply, if you call yourself belonging to a particular religious group, your marriage and other affairs of personal law will be governed by that religion's laws as far as adopted in your country. If you don't wanna follow it, stop making you categorised within that group. In that sense, I think, making children born out of illegitimate relation such as live in should be governed by a specific separate law to which person professing conventional religions are not subjected. This exception may have a further exception which will introduce the question of acknowledgement in case of Muslims and adoption in case of Hindus as far as feasibly be harmonised with the respective traditional branches of personal laws or the national laws whichever is more helpful for preserving the traditional religious values against cultural aggression as a result of modern colonial trends,
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