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This week, read South Korea’s ‘Willfully Unmarried’ Movement, a really fascinating deep dive by Hawon Jung for New Lines magazine.
South Korea took a similar approach for decades, spending billions of dollars on pro-birth campaigns focused on married heterosexual couples — with little success. Now more bihon women are building communities of their own and pushing to redefine family in less traditional ways. Many of these women are experimenting with new forms of companionship or family, like pooling their resources with two or more friends and living with them in the same house, or having a child and raising it out of wedlock.
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