Very well put. Inheritance laws and estate and life decisions are another legal reason. Next of kin obligations.
The primary social benefit is in the creation and rearing of children. Screw up enough parents in one generation and your society is gone.
Great societies can not exist without strong families. Strong families can not exist without marriage.
But the commies already know that.
“Great societies can not exist without strong families. Strong families can not exist without marriage.”
Both can prosper without special government status.
I’ve been reconstructing and investigating the genealogy of our various family branches. Glaringly obvious is the connection that marriage plays in the progression and succession of families.
What are we to become... like dogs and cats, mating at will with no thought of who you are and what you came from?
This is like a bad sci-fi movie.
Thanks. You are right about those other considerations. The generation of kids raised in the aftermath of broken families and families that never were are is costing us dearly and those children are forever disadvantaged. I was just talking to my wife and she was marveling that out of all the grand kids of her grandmother’s that our children are the only ones that were all conceived after marriage. Most were born outside of marriage and the cost has been huge. Most of the grand kids still behave like children and now they are parents and it is largely their parents who are raising their kids.