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Here's a set of laws I'd really like to try as a social experiment.
Any child below the age of <blah> must have at least one parent. The parent(s) have responsibilities and rights as per normal.
The starting parents are the biological ones.
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.
The child can add, eject and swap parents. Per rule 1, the child can't eject their last parent, they have to swap.
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.
Does anybody think it's actually a good idea (and not just a funny joke, or fuzzy-generating slogan)? Except for a few cases where it is, it seems emphatically not.
Eh? What is? The idea of social experiments? Yes I think they're a good idea. And unavoidable too - there are too many variables moving fast and now for much cultural stability at the moment. The main question is whether to prefer organically grown cultural shifts, or forays into deliberate design.