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To: Lane3 who wrote (133076)	3/23/2001 1:11:15 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well you see there should be incentives to marriage that arise by the logic of marriage's meaning. Marriage is really the ultimate framework of society. When individuals are married, they should be treated as One and the state should bestow upon them high honor and far less monetary pressure than with individuals, this, to better enable them to care for and maintain their households. Of course with such benefits come the responsibility of faithfulness to uphold the contract. When individuals "shack up" they should be treated simply as individuals by the state and nothing more. Women will have absolutely no right at all to demand the resources of the man with whom they shack up, even in cases of pregnancy. Their children will suffer? Their children are but individuals and are not to benefit as they would were they part of a true family and would not receive the same honor as children in married families. It seems harsh, yes. But it is logical. Society must understand that a child in conditions where its mother and father are not contracted in marriage is in conditions that are simply not acknowledgeable by the law because there is no contract. This does not license society to punish such children in a Dickensian sense. The moral law of human decency remains intact. So indeed society should pity such children. But society should always see the child as existing in less than ideal circumstances, and their parents should always be viewed as separate individuals because their relationship has no enforceable contract. When a human comes into being, he/she possesses an irrevocable genetic makeup that comes of one man and one woman. That fact should ever be reflected in the union of that individual's parents and, where the state is concerned, in their legal contract of marriage. Less women would "shack up," and more would enter into stable, fulfilling marriages. And fewer men would abandon their homes.