Yeah that was really an incredible effort. When they are still convincing themselves that supreme court judicial fiat is actually a positive force in US politics, libs love to say how the supreme court gave civil rights, abortion rights, protection to interracial marriage, etc. before it was broadly popular with the population. The difference between that, and how celebrated it is/was, and the process by which the Cuban family code changes were enacted, is very telling of the difference between the US and Cuba.

In the US, unelected judges get to grant and take away what should be pretty fundamental rights, at will, because we are too cowardly to enshrine them, and this is celebrated as progressive, at least when it goes liberals' way.

In Cuba, there was an extensive process of consultation with the public, soliciting policy ideas and facilitating public discussion and education. It was, in effect, a process of consensus-building, for months and years leading up to the changes. Which is how they are able to strongly enshrine such rights legally, but also, a broadly supportive population is a much better guarantor of those rights than some unelected judges on a packed, politicized court.