[BikerNYC]

I understand. But why does that family unit have to be married, with a license, with or without a church? Face it, the reason marriage is the way it is now is because of public policy, not logic. We simply prefer things this way. Moreover, how many children now are born out of wedlock? How many adults are actually married? These figures show that this "logic" you speak of is not air tight.

[Kozak]

I understand. But why does that family unit have to be married, with a license, with or without a church? Face it, the reason marriage is the way it is now is because of public policy, not logic. We simply prefer things this way. Moreover, how many children now are born out of wedlock? How many adults are actually married? These figures show that this "logic" you speak of is not air tight.

The family is an institution that has endured for 10s of thousands of years. It has been shown to be the best method for protecting and raising children, and in most societies the building block of that family has been the nuclear family with extended kin. The fact is, that for a mere 30 years we have been busy destroying that structure and engaged in a huge sociologic experiment to see what happens when we try to raise children without any coherent family structure. And the early results are not good. Right now something like 80% of black kids live in a home without a father. Right now the rest of our society is at the point the black community was at in the late 60's and 70's regarding illigetimacy. One more generation and we can expect to be at that level in the rest of society. Think that will bode well for our future?