On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 20:59:15 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-10-03 8:10 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>> Marriage is a useful, perhaps vital, institution if one is raising kids. It might not be relevant in a society that no longer cares about raising kids. Not having kids is trending these days. As a matter of fact, so is not being able to have kids. It looks like nature is saying "screw it" to the human race.
>>
>> Lots of children are being raised just fine by unmarried parents and
>> lots of other children are being raised badly by parents who are
>> married. You hail from the 50s.
>>
>
>Sure, lots of kids are being raised nicely by unmarried parents. There
>is also a huge number of single parents on welfare and kids pretty much
>doomed to a life of poverty.

It all depends on the kind of people the parents are, not on whether
they're married.