CALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIPS: Elizabeth Marquardt
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Yes, it does present some awkward constraints when the state tries to copy an institution built around interdependency needed for the raising of children--marriage--and offer it to same-sex couples whose needs quite often differ. And "experts" like that UCSF prof quoted don't help matters. Married women and men today do not intertwine their financial lives because marriage is "traditionally structured on the basis that women were the property of men." They do it for many reasons, but perhaps most importantly because the dependency needs of children, and of pregnant and nursing women, and women raising small children, tend to be better served when the father of the child commits everything to the family, including his money.
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