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"You're still free to have children if you want, but you're only supported by the state if you got a license." The traditional "license" to have children used

by ksenzee 11y ago

"You're still free to have children if you want, but you're only supported by the state if you got a license." The traditional "license" to have children used to be marriage, and children born without such a license were called illegitimate - i.e. outside the law. It was an unjust system that hurt a lot of innocent children, and we've moved away from it for a reason.

humanrebar 11y ago
> It was an unjust system that hurt a lot of innocent children If the current system (where marriage and procreation are notionally separate) were found to hurt a lot of innocent children, would we call our system unjust and abandon it? I suspect not. The current culture around marriage and parenting didn't evolve from pragmatism as much as (various takes on) ethics, morality, and self-determinism.