steeltime if you can read and comprehend, my earlier response that you highlighted, does not offer my opinion on the matter, it just states what happens at that University
About which you have no disagreement or criticism. Thus my reply.
Have a 3rd grader explain it to you next time.
Your idea on marriage is beyond bizarre, many people get married and don't have kids, many don't procreate but adopt. Maybe they should eliminate marriage licenses under your system and just issue procreation licenses. I always thought of marriage as a formal bond between two people that unites their lives legally, economically and emotionally.
Maybe people who procreate and aren't married should be required to marry to protect the children. lol
For as long as humans have existed, anybody can live with anybody else, without government sanction. The rise and fall of laws prohibiting homosexual relations did not prevent such relationships. Originally, the institution of marriage, dating back hundreds of years, was once designed to promote power by combining families. That changed during the Renaissance, when the idea of romantic marriage arose. Even then, society had little interest in the relations between adults and become involved only because the adults would produce citizens who depended on others, including the government - children.
The Catholic church gave women more say in marriage by making marriage a sacrament, obligating the male to remain faithful and banning divorce. Again, the reason for the institution was the care of children. That has always been true since the advent of marriage involving one man and one woman.
You can think of your relationships in whatever way you want. Nobody gives a ****. Why should I care? More importantly, why should the government care? Because your relationship could have a significant impact on society when you have children. At that point, we are forced to care because we now have people who are dependent on us, on society, on laws, on protection.
Maybe they should eliminate marriage licenses under your system and just issue procreation licenses.
For the love of God, what do you think the reason for marriage has been for the past 600 years?!? So that the betrothed can register and get a toaster? Stop being so shallow, so stupid, and ignorant of human history. The only reason marriage mattered was that it meant the husband was obligated, legally and spiritually, to care for his children so that the children are protected, educated, and become productive members of society, rather than a costly anchor.
Maybe people who procreate and aren't married should be required to marry to protect the children. lol
What do you think child support laws are designed to do?!? They are meant to force the male to take the responsibilities for caring for the child financially, because government thinks that laws work.
They are too stupid to realize that laws will not replace a societal ethos. You get married, your wife has your offspring, and you work to care for both because you are responsible for them, society expects you to care for them, you are looked at with disdain for not taking care of your family, you are morally responsible for them, you are shunned by society if you don't.
So that philosophy is gone because idiots like you thought you knew so much. "Oh, just pass a law and the kids will be okay." So black culture has 72% out-of-wedlock child births, not a big deal at all, government is doing the job ... with exploding crime among the fatherless, drug dealing, falling school test scores, unemployment, poverty, violence.
How's that working out? LOL, I guess. LOL at two generations consigned to poverty, and borderline illiteracy, despair, anger, and depression.
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