Giliell
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Getting rid of marriage alltogether would be something I'd call a long-time goal.
But we would have to change A LOT of things before that.
Modern marriage with all its legal and social implications comes from a time when the housewife-breadwinner-children-family was the norm, or at least the norm that mattered to people in power.
The benefits given were thought to help raising the children which is an important task for a country (please, don't mention overpopulation in Africa here. It's like people saying that people shouldn't complain about a flood when there's a draught somewhere else). This goes hand in hand with an idea of "paternal rights" and a lot of other shit.
Nowadays life has changed. DINKS are unjustly getting the privileges while single parents, unmarried parents or gay parents aren't. What's more, when it comes to duties, most countries will dump that on gay couples, but not the privileges (for example, in Germany an unmarried partner has to stick up for the other one before that partner can get welfare just like a spouse has to, while not getting the tax benefits the spouse gets).
So, yeah, I'm kind of with you there.
But until we get there, move the burden of the kids from the parents to society in general, and have effective ways to regulate all those handy things that come automatically with marriage, making it open to everybody seems to be the first step.
But we would have to change A LOT of things before that.
Modern marriage with all its legal and social implications comes from a time when the housewife-breadwinner-children-family was the norm, or at least the norm that mattered to people in power.
The benefits given were thought to help raising the children which is an important task for a country (please, don't mention overpopulation in Africa here. It's like people saying that people shouldn't complain about a flood when there's a draught somewhere else). This goes hand in hand with an idea of "paternal rights" and a lot of other shit.
Nowadays life has changed. DINKS are unjustly getting the privileges while single parents, unmarried parents or gay parents aren't. What's more, when it comes to duties, most countries will dump that on gay couples, but not the privileges (for example, in Germany an unmarried partner has to stick up for the other one before that partner can get welfare just like a spouse has to, while not getting the tax benefits the spouse gets).
So, yeah, I'm kind of with you there.
But until we get there, move the burden of the kids from the parents to society in general, and have effective ways to regulate all those handy things that come automatically with marriage, making it open to everybody seems to be the first step.