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Cuba’s new Family Code: made possible by socialism
Rather than simply ‘legalising gay marriage’ the new laws in Cuba addressed everything from domestic work to children's rights, engaging half of the entire population in a uniquely socialist process, explain MARY DAVIS and ANGUS REID
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THE result of the referendum on the new Family Code in Cuba, held on September 25, is a landmark victory for socialism, a major advance and a signal of the virtue of a genuine people’s democracy.
At stake was an entirely new social settlement that recognises in law a redefinition of the family. And that family can be, simply, any combination of adults of any ages, whether gay, lesbian or straight. Every couple now has the right to marry, and to adopt. There is no specific law for LGBTQ+ people because they are simply accepted as people. As equals.
It also recognises the family as a place of labour — the labour of bringing up children, and caring for the elderly and disabled — and it rewards that labour, whoever does it. Only socialists think like this.
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