Get Government Out of Marriage Again

Over the last century, single-parent households have increased dramatically. The US is #1 in the world.

Children who grow up in single-parent households are much more likely to become depressed, suicidal, poor, obese, ignorant, violent, and Democrat.

If you’re a Democratic politician you may therefore want more single-parents (just as you may want more illegal immigrants and public school students), but if you actually care about children then your primary question should be, “How can we increase two-parent households again?”

Fundamentally, the answer is to reduce the nanny state because Uncle Sam isn’t a good substitute for a father.

The best way to do this is to get the government out of marriage again.

For most of Western history, marriage was a private contract between two families. None of our founding fathers had a marriage license. Marriage licenses only became popular during the late 19th century because states wanted to “exert more control over who was allowed to marry,” e.g. ban interracial marriage.

Since government has been involved in marriage, they have done what they…