I tend to go along with that - it's a fairly elementary syllogism. Broadly speaking, kids are best brought up by two (or more) adults who are essentially permanently committed to each other and to the children. Marriage is an announcement of permanent commitment between previously unrelated adults, who in most(? certainly many) cases have or will have children - hence a Good Thing. It depressed me immensely when a (working class and black) woman of my acquaintance was stunned by my good fortune in finding a man who was prepared to marry me and then have children with me, and then stay around to raise them.
That is not to say that I think that the Conservative plan is a good idea, or indeed that the state should have any views about the "right" state for childless couples.
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Date: July 11th, 2007 10:01 pm (UTC)From:That is not to say that I think that the Conservative plan is a good idea, or indeed that the state should have any views about the "right" state for childless couples.