Marriage and Family

Marriage is a social institution that helps to connect a couple, so that they can become a family.

Marriage is a mixture of love, obligation, understanding, tolerance, hard work, and kindness, with the primary goal of having and raising children intelligently (see Why We Are Here?). Normally, that would mean a heterosexual couple that had children. But we must realize that the world is overpopulated, so families must not have as many children as they may want (see Ecology). Many people live in the past, and think that the world that they grew up in is still here. If that were true, then the population would never increase, but it has more than doubled during my life. Everyone needs to realize that overpopulation leads to a lower quality of life for everybody. Overpopulation makes it increasingly difficult for people to meet their basic human needs (see Human Needs), so that will result in more suffering, crime and wars.

I always thought it humorous that in a TV “Barney Miller” episode, a human from the future says that homosexuality will become accepted as a means of population control. I think I concur, as homosexual marriages aren’t that different from heterosexual ones (see Homosexuality). Homosexual married couples should have just as much right to adopt as heterosexual couples. In this way, they have the opportunity to become a family as a sterile heterosexual couple.

Those couples that do not have children of their own should do what they can to assist in the raising of all children. For some, that may mean a career in the medical field or in education. For others, if your job or leisure time helps you to have or raise children intelligently in some way, then you are doing your part. Farming and ranching in an environmentally sound manner, is also important because everyone needs food to survive. Every business should start to turn their attention toward making this planet and its people more ecologically healthy (see Ecology).

There are many unwed mothers, who don’t make enough money to support their family. Many would say, “If you can’t support your children, you shouldn’t have any”. But if the purpose of life is to “Have children and raise them intelligently”, then unwed mothers are also trying to participate in that goal. A capitalistic society makes the raising of a child difficult, if you have little money. We need to recognize that “raising children intelligently” is a goal that we all need to assist in. We need to find ways to support unwed mothers, so that they can also succeed. I would put the caveat that unwed mothers must practice birth control (see Sex), as overpopulation is not conducive towards raising children intelligently.

There are many families that don’t make enough money. We also need to find ways to assist them. Free prenatal healthcare and healthcare for children should be a goal that we implement by a certain year. Surely, that is more important than going to the moon, and we were able to achieve that goal. Daycare and preschool for the children of working mothers (or single dads) would also be something that benefit society along with assisting in raising children intelligently. With that as a goal, it makes it easier to figure out what we need to do.

Marriage is a social institution that helps to connect a couple, so that they can become a family. Government needs to support this social institution.