ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a transcribed excerpt from a key panel at the “After Marriage” conference, reflecting on some lessons from the same-sex marriage debate about the prospects for further expanding support for family diversity. In this panel, several people involved in family diversity struggles in different ways—as activists, journalists, social workers, lawyers, academics, and members of non-conventional relationships themselves—share their thoughts about the resources that exist now to support such relationships, and about the legal and cultural changes that are needed to support them further. Collectively, the panelists place a special emphasis on the need for flexible legal and linguistic frameworks designed from the beginning to accommodate ongoing variation and change, rather than to define “family” in accordance with a specific template.
