wedrifid comments on Our House, My Rules - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 02 November 2009 03:03:32AM 9 points [-]

Here's a set of laws I'd really like to try as a social experiment.

  1. Any child below the age of <blah> must have at least one parent. The parent(s) have responsibilities and rights as per normal.

  2. The starting parents are the biological ones.

  3. The parental relationship may be disconnected from either end. Consent of the disconnected party is not required. Disconnection severs both rights and responsibilities. Per rule 1, the last parent can't disconnect without arranging an adoption.

  4. The child can add, eject and swap parents. Per rule 1, the child can't eject their last parent, they have to swap.

  5. For a child-initiated addition or swap to go ahead, all parents and the child present after the swap must mutually consent before the swap.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 November 2009 03:13:17PM 1 point [-]

How does child support fit into the mix?

Comment author: JulianMorrison 02 November 2009 03:20:32PM 0 points [-]

Child support is a responsibility like the others, it arrives with adoption and disappears with disconnection.