Merav michaeli family quotes

Topic: Marriage. However, the first question went much further: With rising divorce rates, should we discontinue our focus on marriage and instead focus on relationships and commitment? Philosopher AC Grayling, who elected to answer the question as a philosopher rather than as a married man, said the legal institution of marriage is very sexist in its origins and should not exist in that form at all.

Liberal senator Zed Seselja and independent senator Lucy Gichuhi disagreed, calling marriage between a man and a woman "foundational to our community" and "the backbone of most families: and a family is the lowest bedrock of any civil society," respectively. While adamantly endorsing the equality of love, Ms Michaeli said love had nothing to do with the institution of marriage, calling it "a tool made to dominate women for the sake of reproduction".

Labor's Mark Dreyfus said the institution of marriage had changed immensely over the last 4, years and is still evolving. Ms Michaeli, however, argued that marriage is still very much about property in many societies. When asked directly by an audience member how she could say marriage was not about love when it has historically been about the binding of two individuals who love each other, Ms Michaeli pointed to arranged marriages.

Love was "a nice bonus" but was not the reason marriage was created and not why it has lasted, she said. Ms Michaeli went further when the topic of same-sex marriage specifically was raised. When Senator Seselja raised the rights of parents over their children's education, for example the right to withdraw their children from gender education classes, Ms Michaeli argued the "core family as we know it" is "the least safe place for children" and helps perpetuate domestic violence.

Senator Seselja disagreed vehemently that the family is inherently unsafe, and insisted he was very aware of the issues around domestic violence. Host Virginia Trioli challenged Ms Michaeli to provide an alternative. Ms Michaeli offered two alternative "default arrangements" which could be offered by the state, focusing on child-rearing and co-habitation.

She is his, so she is given his family name and the children are, too, his.

Children could have more than two parents, which would not necessarily by their biological parents but must be someone taking responsibility for the child. The other arrangement would take the shared financial and social aspects of marriage and formalise them between any two people, whether they have a shared romance or are simply room-mates. This, she said, would prevent the explosion that often happens in divorce when financial matters have not been discussed openly.