Hello and welcome to the Europeans podcast coming to you from Groninger this week where my husband is for work and I'm crashing his hotel for a night to see him.

I think I've reached peak romantic in my relationship after crossing the country to visit him for the first time in two weeks

and then immediately asking him to leave the room as it's podcast recording time.

So beautiful of romantic. Thank you, Thomas.

Yeah, thanks. Sorry. How are you? Where are you?

I'm in Paris and it's very hot here and it's election season again. You might have thought

we were done with that after we re-elected Macron last month. But we're not done. We're electing a new parliament here in France, which is a fun opportunity for me to geek out over my first time voting a two-round parliamentary election. Fun times. Yeah, I really don't understand how this two-round parliamentary election works and we probably don't have time for you to explain it to me. But it seems really confusing. It is confusing but also really fun.

And the most important thing to remember is that in France, when you vote, you get a little stamp on

your voting card and it makes you feel like a child in school getting a gold star for doing something

good. It's very satisfying.

Anyway, France aside, what have we got coming up this week? Well, this week we're going to be

talking about a topic. We've been wanting to discuss for a long time now, and we're finally

getting around to it. It's the topic of multi-parenting families, families often with LGBTQ plus

parents who decide to co-parent with more than two parents.

Now, these kinds of families are becoming more and more common in certain parts of Europe, and

particularly in the Netherlands. And whilst it's becoming more common, that doesn't mean that the

law has caught up with recognising families with more than two parents. That could all be about to

change as the Dutch coalition government are expected to offer up a new multi-parenthood law as part

of a broader package of bills which should make life easier for rainbow families and prospective

rainbow families. And we've got the perfect person to speak to us about this topic.

Remko Yitzhak Koremans is the chairman of the Dutch Foundation for Rainbow Families,

Mir Dan Ghevenst.

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