Such stipulations include: No data currently exist on adoption of children or parenting by same-sex military families.
In 2002 the South African National Defence Force extended medical and pension benefits, which had previously only been available to the spouses of military personnel, to their life partners without regard to gender.
PACS are recognized by the French Armed Forces, but consequently confer fewer abilities or benefits to (same-sex or opposite-sex) couples than marriages[citation needed].
Legislation passed by Parliament on 13 January 2011 granted military partners living under PACS equal access to pensions as those given to married opposite-sex couples[citation needed].
In France, same-sex couples are allowed to wed, and are eligible to full military family benefits under French law[citation needed].
The Irish Defence Forces allow for married service members to record their partnership status on their personnel file[citation needed].
The Australian Defence Force policies on couples of any sex follow a directive from the Minister of Defense of 1 January 2010 that enforces the terms of the Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws—Superannuation) Act 2008.