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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I agree, but I'm also interested in the social aspect. Think of same-sex couples families. There is a difference between "being together" to raise a family and "being married" to raise a family. It goes beyond the legal and the financial. It is the wider acceptance of your family as legitimate within society. Without being at least entitled to all of these, your family is an abject entity because society at large views it as less than acceptable. It is viewed as invalid and therefore illegitimate (i.e. not a "real" family).
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I make sure that I remind myself that distinction, being married is family, raising children is a different path. Just because I'm married with no children does not diminish the familial aspect of our bond this coming from a societla and geneological viewpoint. We are a family even if we have no children.
I extend the same logic to same sex partners.
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