Tangentiating a little: if we were going to do something like separating the legal rights currently associated with legal marriage from the social construct we call marriage, I'd want to consider detaching them entirely from the two-person relationship and attaching them instead to "family."
I also think this is a good idea, but actually advocating for this requires very careful framing, because right now in our society the idea of "we are living together as a household and are responsible for one another" and "we are romantically committed to one another and having sex" are conflated.
I think the mainstream is already comfortable with non-standard structures for households, it's just hard to get most people to say so because it's hard to ask the question without invoking the much more controversial question of non-standard romantic relationship structures.
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Date: 2009-09-04 04:39 pm (UTC)I also think this is a good idea, but actually advocating for this requires very careful framing, because right now in our society the idea of "we are living together as a household and are responsible for one another" and "we are romantically committed to one another and having sex" are conflated.
I think the mainstream is already comfortable with non-standard structures for households, it's just hard to get most people to say so because it's hard to ask the question without invoking the much more controversial question of non-standard romantic relationship structures.