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Ireland looked set to reject proposals to replace constitutional references to the makeup of a family and\u00a0a \u201cmother\u2019s duties in the home\u201d\u00a0in a significant defeat for the government.<\/p>\nIreland looked set to reject proposals to replace constitutional references to the makeup of a family and\u00a0a \u201cmother\u2019s duties in the home\u201d\u00a0in a significant defeat for the government.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Leo Varadkar had pitched the referendum vote, held on Friday to coincide with International Women\u2019s Day, as a chance to delete some \u201cvery old-fashioned, very sexist language about women\u201d.He said the government would accept the results.\u201cI think it\u2019s clear at this stage that the family amendment and the care amendment referendums have been defeated \u2013 defeated comprehensively on a respectable turnout,\u201d he said\u201c\u2026It was our responsibility to convince the majority of people to vote \u2018Yes\u2019 and we clearly failed to do so.\u201dOfficial results are\u00a0expected later in the day.The two proposals would\u00a0have made\u00a0changes to the text of article 41 in the Irish constitution, written in 1937.The first asked citizens to expand the definition of family from a relationship founded on marriage to include other durable relationships, whether founded on marriage or not.The second would\u00a0have replaced\u00a0language surrounding a mother\u2019s duties with a clause recognising care provided by family members by \u201creason of the bonds that exist among them\u201d.In effect, the proposal to spread the burden of care for\u00a0people\u00a0with disabilities to the entire family from only the\u00a0mother\u00a0became a row about the extent or willingness of the state to support carers.Follow the
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Ireland was set to reject proposals to amend constitutional references to family makeup and “mother’s duties in the home,” marking a significant defeat for the government. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar described the referendum, coinciding with International Women’s Day, as an opportunity to remove outdated, sexist language. However, he acknowledged the defeat of the family and care amendments based on a respectable turnout. The proposals aimed to update Article 41 of the 1937 Irish constitution by broadening the definition of family and replacing language about a mother’s duties with a clause recognizing care by family members due to their bonds. This sparked debate over the state’s role in supporting carers. Official results were expected later that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1133,3,1131,250,415,187,1130,1175,429,1176,1100],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-constitutional-references","tag-cyprus","tag-family-makeup","tag-google","tag-government","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-makeup-of-a-family","tag-marriage","tag-mothers-duties-in-the-home","tag-women"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n