On Friday we are able to additionally vote to redefine what a household is, but it surely gained’t result in an apocalypse
There are two questions in play within the vote on Friday. Ought to the constitutional definition of the household be broadened to incorporate households based on “sturdy relationships” in addition to these based on marriage? And will we change the State’s professed intention to assist girls of their duties within the house with an intention to assist the work of household carers?
Article 41.1.1 says (with the proposed change in brackets): “The State recognises the Household (whether or not based on marriage or on different sturdy relationships) because the pure main and elementary unit group of Society, and as an ethical establishment possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all optimistic regulation.”