So people keep saying. But what about hetero couples that don't have children. Nobody objects to their being married. They don't see the primary purpose as having children.
The fact is, that's wrong. The legal status of marriage has nothing to do with children. It is the legal recognition of a common social convention. That two people join into a social unit. Married people have additional legal ties to each other, not to their children.
Well, I disagree with your point, while it is true some couples don’t have children, as someone posted above
“Marriage is not a right but a set of legal obligations imposed because the government has a vested interest in unions that, among other things, have the potential to produce children, which is to say, the future population of the nation.”
So the married poeple have ties to each other because of the potential of having children. Just because some don’t doesn’t change the basic purpose.
In my opinion.