[HN Gopher] A South Korean woman who adopted her best friend
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       A South Korean woman who adopted her best friend
        
       Author : mrjaeger
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-12-21 17:19 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.aljazeera.com)
        
       | onyxringer wrote:
       | It always seemed to me that instead of fighting over definition
       | of a marriage, governments should just generalize to some kind of
       | civil union to allow broader scope of living arrangements to
       | benefit from recognition and protection. Two (or more) people
       | sharing livelihood doesn't need to be based on sex or kinship.
       | Adoption is just a crude workaround for the lack of the right
       | civil law abstraction.
        
         | kbelder wrote:
         | I agree, but there needs to be some legal distinction between
         | 'union' and 'guardianship'. The latter probably should be
         | harder to dissolve.
        
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