Edited sentence: It is now widely perceived in the public that the PACS is better than marriage to protect the family (and notably children) and avoid damages caused by complicate divorces.Statistic report on PACS compared to marriage (French Ministry of Justice, January 2008).This has resulted in some recent political proposals to simplify the complicated and costly procedures for divorces, in order to promote again the marriage that has largely declined in the opinion.This is confirmed by the yearly demographic report about French population, published in January 2007 by Insee, the official French statistics agency that also manages the national registry of person status and identity, and by the French Ministry of Justice that manages the official registry of PACS concluded in France