[DNA.2012]

We’d have healthier families if the state didn’t make it extremely risky for a guy to stick his neck out, only to find himself ten years later paying for a home he doesn’t live in, barely seeing his children that still live there with their mother and some strange man.

All of that happens because the government controls/licenses marriage, and thus controls the terms of the marriage contract.

[kearnyirish2]

“All of that happens because the government controls/licenses marriage, and thus controls the terms of the marriage contract.”

Absolutely, and like everything else the government over-regulates, it kills it. The Judeo-Christian concept of marriage in America is dead.