In the World Values Survey, Sweden ranked first (on the top of the list!) when it comes to self-expression values. Nine out of ten Swedes would accept a woman for a ruler (there have been two titular queens, Christina and Ulrika Eleonora the Younger, and one queen consort much more influent than her spouse, Louise Ulrika, aside from Crown Princess Victoria, the current heiress to the throne), support divorce, homosexuality, abortion, and euthanasia.
Swedish picture books feature children with two parents of the same gender (one heroine had a Swedish birth mother and a Turkish stepmother!), characters eager to cross gender boundaries (both tomboys playing football and sensitive guys dressing up dolls), and discussions about taboos such as sex and death (in a 2004 storybook, two children and their father discuss whether their pet pig should be euthanized: the gent himself had, as a child, got to put a fatally wounded seagull to sleep).
And here is one of the Swedish kid-lit families of the brave new millennium:
Happ (grey-blue, thin) and Sixten (black, overweight) watch their little darling Suddan in bed.
When anthropomorphic rabbits Happ and Sixten, both male, met one another in 2012, it clicked.
It is unclear whether they got married or not, but at least they live together.
To fulfil their wish for a child, they adopted orphan girl-bunny Suddan, who has been their daughter ever since.
No one in their local community objects to their lifestyle. It may be the hinterland/the provinces, but it's (a fantasy counterpart of) present-day Sweden after all!
Lille Skutt skaffade en svåger för sex år sedan. En till alltså. Han hade faktiskt redan (minst) en, för Nina har en bror. Men den nya svågern Sixten har Skutt genom sin egen bror Happ. Och tre år efter att Happ och Sixten flyttade ihop, fick de en dotter vid namn Suddan. Ytterligare tre år senare (vilket vill säga nu) jublar hela Internet över detta.
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