Constituency
New Family’s constituency includes people who are vulnerable to infringements on rights due to family status, such as people who can not legally marry in Israel, immigrants, interfaith and bi-national families, common-law couples, single parents, homosexuals and lesbians, people whose family status disadvantages them for adoption or for reproductive services, foreign citizens, refugees, religiously ‘forbidden’ unions, people deemed ‘ineligible’ for marriage by religious law, children deemed ‘illegitimate’ by religious law, people who do not meet the religious definition of any faith, or meet the definition of two faiths, and more.
Rights promoted by New Family include the right to marry, to have children, to access adoption services and reproductive technology, register children and spouses, to bequeath and inherit assets and to dissolve a partnership without discrimination based on faith, origin, nationality, sexual orientation, or status.
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