Finding Family and Refusing Family

Choosing your relationships is largely considered a fundamental right in our society. True, this is not necessarily the case in other cultures, but in the United States, you can marry, divorce, disown, disinherit, inherit, etc. pretty much at will. There are a few notable exceptions: 1) you cannot choose to add to your family outside of the one living spouse per person rule (and in some states that person still has to be of the opposite gender) and 2) acknowledgement of children is forcible under certain circumstances. These circumstances disproportionately affect men, as physically, pregnancy disproportionately affects women.