Question

A nuer woman married to a woman can be the 'pater' of a child she did not father. native american berdaches (a third gender) may assume the role of a wife and share the products of their labor with a man or woman. cross-cultural examples like these illustrate:

Answer 1

Cross-cultural examples like these show and illustrate how, if there were legal means to do so, the same sex marriages could benefit from the same legal rights like the different sex marriages benefit. But in order to do so these kind of marriages would have to be made legal.