I agree with a lot of what you wrote here, but I do have one concern. Throughout your piece, you alluded to the notion that people would be far better off in general if they were married. Not only for the economic and stability benefits, but also for the obvious boon this would be for children.
My question is, would it not be more economically prudent to simply make sure that birth control (in various forms) was much cheaper and more widely accessible (as well as adoption), as opposed to simply saying people need to be married so that they don't have one-parent kids?
Sex should not be something that is only viable if you are married and make enough money to support kids...that's not how it's supposed to work. Not only do we Not personally need to have kids in order to contribute to the tribal/farm workload anymore, but there's 8 billion of us on this planet now. If anything there's too many of us...but that's probably a different argument.
I mean, it's one thing to say someone who is poor and barely getting by should not have kids...most can probably agree with that. But it's quite another to say that because of that, everyone who wants to raise kids should be married. Anyone who has enough time and money to devote to raising kids can and should do so if they want.
Despair over disparities: systemic racism or systemic dysfunction?
I agree with a lot of what you wrote here, but I do have one concern. Throughout your piece, you alluded to the notion that people would be far better off in general if they were married. Not only for the economic and stability benefits, but also for the obvious boon this would be for children.
My question is, would it not be more economically prudent to simply make sure that birth control (in various forms) was much cheaper and more widely accessible (as well as adoption), as opposed to simply saying people need to be married so that they don't have one-parent kids?
Sex should not be something that is only viable if you are married and make enough money to support kids...that's not how it's supposed to work. Not only do we Not personally need to have kids in order to contribute to the tribal/farm workload anymore, but there's 8 billion of us on this planet now. If anything there's too many of us...but that's probably a different argument.
I mean, it's one thing to say someone who is poor and barely getting by should not have kids...most can probably agree with that. But it's quite another to say that because of that, everyone who wants to raise kids should be married. Anyone who has enough time and money to devote to raising kids can and should do so if they want.