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iniquiticityAnonymous asked
In the Greenhouses universe, do same sex couples ever raise a family? Or do the aristocracy deliberately use this as a means of limiting the growth of their family trees? I'm not asking for Hamilton and Washington (neither of them seems like the type to want kids), but for Eliza - it's unusual to see her married without kids in fanfic.
same-sex couples definitely raise families. if you’ve been matched up with someone that’s the opposite gender, that does not at all stop you from having a kid. i think there are lots of options in that case!
you could:
-enlist a surrogate! i’m sure that this exists and is de-stigmatized.
-adopt. i don’t know what the adoption culture is, but adopting, even late in life, is totally fucking cool. i don’t exactly know how adoptions works when your close friend isn’t the oldest kid of a super famous war-general but i’m sure that it’s a thing that people do if they don’t want to enlist a surrogate.
-co-parent. there would be some negotiation of rank and status among all the kids and parents, but i’m sure this happens, especially post-major-war when maybe not everyone’s as in great shape as they were before the war.
-not have kids. i think people deciding not to have kids actually does a lot to maintain the aristocracy, becuase you only have a set amount of land, and creating too much rank dilutes that rank. i assume there is some kind of contraception in greenhouses verse.
disclaimer: if something here is super insensitive to some family structure that i am presently ignorant of, then i apologize in advance. please let me know.
synteis replied to your post “In the Greenhouses universe, do same sex couples ever raise a family?…”
I wonder if it replaces the historical conception that your first son got the land, the second was sent to the military and the third to the church. Or maybe they still do that but there’s also who they marry and such.
it wouldn’t surprise me, although i haven‘t actually worked it out in my head. even if it’s not 1) land 2) military 3) church, there could be some other situations where your kid was “promised” to, which fits in with some of the other strict hierarchy parts of the story. it would certainly make the adoption situation interesting. “hey, you can become a Noble! on the downside, you then have to become a clergyperson.”
anyway, i haven’t thought about this a lot, honestly. but it’s definitely a good thing to consider.
In the Greenhouses universe, do same sex couples ever raise a family? Or do the aristocracy deliberately use this as a means of limiting the growth of their family trees? I'm not asking for Hamilton and Washington (neither of them seems like the type to want kids), but for Eliza - it's unusual to see her married without kids in fanfic.
same-sex couples definitely raise families. if you’ve been matched up with someone that’s the opposite gender, that does not at all stop you from having a kid. i think there are lots of options in that case!
you could:
-enlist a surrogate! i’m sure that this exists and is de-stigmatized.
-adopt. i don’t know what the adoption culture is, but adopting, even late in life, is totally fucking cool. i don’t exactly know how adoptions works when your close friend isn’t the oldest kid of a super famous war-general but i’m sure that it’s a thing that people do if they don’t want to enlist a surrogate.
-co-parent. there would be some negotiation of rank and status among all the kids and parents, but i’m sure this happens, especially post-major-war when maybe not everyone’s as in great shape as they were before the war.
-not have kids. i think people deciding not to have kids actually does a lot to maintain the aristocracy, becuase you only have a set amount of land, and creating too much rank dilutes that rank. i assume there is some kind of contraception in greenhouses verse.
disclaimer: if something here is super insensitive to some family structure that i am presently ignorant of, then i apologize in advance. please let me know.
synteis replied to your post “In the Greenhouses universe, do same sex couples ever raise a family?…”
I wonder if it replaces the historical conception that your first son got the land, the second was sent to the military and the third to the church. Or maybe they still do that but there’s also who they marry and such.
it wouldn’t surprise me, although i haven‘t actually worked it out in my head. even if it’s not 1) land 2) military 3) church, there could be some other situations where your kid was “promised” to, which fits in with some of the other strict hierarchy parts of the story. it would certainly make the adoption situation interesting. “hey, you can become a Noble! on the downside, you then have to become a clergyperson.”
anyway, i haven’t thought about this a lot, honestly. but it’s definitely a good thing to consider.