In Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago, which are the three biggest cities in the US, they have all passed laws that will allow people to take sick days in order to care for anyone who they consider family, regardless of whether or not they're actually related.

And Arizona State and Rhode Island have also passed similar laws,

which seems like a pretty good sign.

I mean, it's such a very specific sliver of what, like rights or special privilege to be granted of

just being able to care take but it's not nothing for sure to step in the right direction

at least it is yeah welcome to the multi-ammery podcast. I'm

Jace. I'm Emily and I'm deadicker. We believe in looking to the future of

relationships, not maintaining the status quo of the past.

So whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, swinging,

casually dating, or if you just do relationships differently,

we see you and we're here for you.

Fongs I know I did.

Force made up for myself to fit.

On this episode of the Multiannary Podcast, we're talking about chosen families.

What is the cultural significance of the term chosen family and why is it so important to those

who've implemented it in their communities? Today we're going to celebrate the origins

of chosen families, the communities that use the term today, and where we are going

as a people in terms of recognizing chosen families in a legal context and some things to think about when creating either a chosen family or some other sort of intentional relationship community of your own.

Jace, where are we going as a people?

As a whole people to the moon.

Apparently to Mars, according to the world's richest person now.

I don't know if the moon or Mars sounds like a great improvement, but...

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