Assignment task: How do the laws surrounding marriage and family affect your life (either in the past or currently)?
What model of child custody and support do you feel is most aligned with your reality? (Tender Years or Best Interests of the Child, or Joint Physical Custody, or Joint Legal Custody?
Why does that custody model appeal to you and your interpretation of family?
Thinking about the alternatives put forth by Kate Schermerhorn, which adaptations to the marriage customs and laws make the most sense to you?
Would you choose: Serial monogamy?
- Legal contract with a specified time limit (that could be renewed or adjusted at the end)?
- To have children with a friend rather than a romantic partner (share childcare without marriage and divorce)?
- Some other arrangement?