1. Summary
As society
changes, variety of family forms are being formed beyond the traditional family
structure consisting of one mother and one father and children. In almost every
society, the basic form of a family is consisting of heterosexual couples and
their biological children. It changes in the form of a wider variety of
families by cultural variations and changes over time. The family life cycles
go through courtship, marriage, children, divorce, and death. Like other all
social community, inequality is existing in relation to
family. (gender, race and religion are where inequality exists.) There is a new family form-for
example, one-parent households and cohabitation, same-sex unions, childfree-that
deviates from the family types that are considered normal.
2. Interesting things
Treating courtship
as part of family life was interesting to me. Because, I thought family shared
the same residential space or were legally connected. Courting also includes
phone calls, characters that happen without real-life contact like watching
movies.
3. Discussion Point
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| urging enactment of living partner law in the blue house website. |
Over the past years, the living partner law(생활동반자법) has been mentioned in many times in Korean society.
Moreover, last November, about 60,000 public petitions urging the enactment of
the law were made on the blue house homepage. The living partner law allows not only a heterosexual couple but also a
friend and a gay couple can to be recognized as a family member. I believe that today's
society where there are many more people who don't want to marry heterosexual
marriages, and more people don't live with their immediate family members, the
legislation is necessary for everyone. However, some groups, such as Christian, oppose the legislation because of the
collapse of the existing family system. So, I would like to hear what you think
about this law.
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