Doug Allen challenges you to describe marriage to a 19 year old male who had never heard of it before:
- Marriage is all about responsibility, monogamy and a painful exit if things go awry.
- Yes, there is the prospect of children, and mutual support, but only if you sign up to child support obligations, community property rules and many other constraints that are enforceable.
The role of the state in marriage is all about protecting mothers from opportunistic breach of a long-term contract with sequential performance. Mothers produce the children up-front while the fathers support the children over a long period subsequent. The problem is dead-beat dads.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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