But really, I’d like to see more attention to how many of these effects are due to the ways in which marriages are legally recognized and respected in ways that other monogamous long term relationships are not.
I’d also like to know why, if LIBERALS HATE MARRIAGE so much, they spent decades fighting for the right to gay marriage?
2 - How much overhead cost (especially legal & bureaucratic) does the promotion create? Note that politicians getting to congratulate themselves on being yet more pro-marriage is not a benefit for society.
Something I noticed is at least nominally rewarded by the tax code: be married, have kids, buy a house, save energy, give charity.
All the right messages.
(Home ownership, parenting, and charity are rewarded by the tax code in a way that is unrelated to marriage.)
j/k not needed: being single can be an adversely selected by poor health - or other things that can cause poor health, such as drug addictions and poverty.