The Abolition Of Marriage

What is marriage? It is the union of a man and a woman. In the normal scheme of things the couple are young and likely to have children. A man and a woman get together to form a family. The institution is there to ensure that the children are looked after.
In a civil society, a free society, the social expectation is that the couple stay together through thick and thin, till death do them part.
This is for the benefit of the children and the protection of the woman.
Should one parent die, the other will frequently re-marry. If the children are left orphans there is a back-up network of family and godparents.
But in a society which has been eaten away by the State there is no marriage. The State first allows divorce, and then encourages it by offering extra benefits to single mothers. It creates a narrative of abuse, and damns good husbands and fathers as abusers.
In such a way is society destroyed.
In some ways the whole argument about gay marriage is bogus. Gay marriage is simply the coup de grâce. Marriage has already been destroyed along with autonomous society.
Marriage has long since been defined as two people who like to hang around together till boredom do them part.
Most women want children, a husband and a family. They may want sex, but most of all they want a family.
But what young woman, except a brave young woman, or a woman who belongs to a religious group, would have a child, knowing that the father will not be around for long?
Certainly, the government will pick up the tab and pay the bills, but what a sad lonesome existence!
And what young man would work his socks off for wife and family, in the knowledge that at a whim, he could lose it all, indeed that Authority spins the Narrative that his wife is a fool to stick with him.
So the young remain childless, their 'friends' are their families, the cancer of the State spreads, eating the heart of life itself.
The abolition of marriage is the triumph of the hierarchical state. It is the triumph of death.