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Huh? People won't be able to reproduce if government doesn't regulate and register marriages? What planet are you on? Child support, custody, and inheritance decisions have been based on genetic parentage, not parents' marital status, for many decades now. Ironically, the ONLY exception has been where a man who is married (or in some states, if the court finds a "common-law" marriage) is forced to pay child support for a child that isn't genetically his, but rather was the result of the wife having an affair.

And all those "extra financial ramifications" you list are just the result of more unconstitutional government meddling. Why should any employer be required to pay any of its employees anything other than money as compensation for their work? Let people buy their own benefits. And if an employer chooses to provide medical insurance or other benefits, the terms should be entirely up to the employer. Survivor benefits on many life insurance policies can go to whoever the insured designates, and all policies should be like that. Same with social security -- as it stands now, the government confiscates your money and then decrees that when you die, survivor benefits have to go to your spouse, even if s/he took of years ago and shacked up with someone else and resisted divorce proceedings with threats of retaliation. You might prefer that your survivor benefits go to your hard-working adult child or nephew, who's struggling to find a new job in tough economic times or needing financial help so that one parent can stay home iwth a young child. But tough luck, the government knows best what should be done with your money.

You sound like you've been living on the nanny state's leash for so long, that you can't imagine being set free.