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From the Ted Talk by Diana Adams: Why US laws must expand beyond the nuclear family

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In future, I propose that we move from these city-level domestic partnerships to state-level multi-partner domestic partnerships and then federal rcgtiioenon, as we did with same-sex marriage. And if we really want to value families as they exist rather than incentivize marriage, I also suggest that we separate out some of the legal perks of marriage so that single people and other kinds of flmieias get these benefits without an eoliautvan of whether they're in a romantic relationship that passes mstuer.

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In future, I propose that we move from these city-level domestic partnerships to state-level multi-partner domestic partnerships and then federal ___________, as we did with same-sex marriage. And if we really want to value families as they exist rather than incentivize marriage, I also suggest that we separate out some of the legal perks of marriage so that single people and other kinds of ________ get these benefits without an __________ of whether they're in a romantic relationship that passes ______.

Solution

  1. evaluation
  2. recognition
  3. muster
  4. families

Original Text

In future, I propose that we move from these city-level domestic partnerships to state-level multi-partner domestic partnerships and then federal recognition, as we did with same-sex marriage. And if we really want to value families as they exist rather than incentivize marriage, I also suggest that we separate out some of the legal perks of marriage so that single people and other kinds of families get these benefits without an evaluation of whether they're in a romantic relationship that passes muster.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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social welfare state 3
nuclear family model 2

Important Words

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  2. domestic
  3. evaluation
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  13. muster
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