Quote Originally Posted by Hajpoj
What the heck? The institution of marriage today is a joke. Get out of the 1950s, the nuclear family no longer exists. The most common type of *families* in this world are struggling single mothers, who much better deserve all the resources being squandered on preserving what is the minority, nuclear families...
Matrilineal societies are the most backward in the world. If you want societies to go back to the stone age, that's your ticket. Most youth gangs are made up of children from exactly the type of homes that you are talking about.

What we should do is stop all government support and forced child-support payments to women and girls that breed children out of wedlock. If private institutions and charities want to help them, that's fine - but the taxpayers should not be the ones to foot the bill for their offspring.

Anthropologist Margaret Mead was in favor of permanent marriages, for couples that desire to have children. She also believed in pre-marriage education, formal agreements, and counseling - for the benefit of the children. I would support a law that only allows divorce after all children are in their upper teens.

Married people that are not interested in having children would be free to divorce as they please.