The baffling part here is you reading things that aren't there. Let's read the two comments you replied to: - Nothing better than a father and mother in a stab

The baffling part here is you reading things that aren't there. Let's read the two comments you replied to: - Nothing better than a father and mother in a stable, loving relationship for a child. Yes, let’s encourage this. - Money promote happiness, so having more money could be a subgoal. This is a rough description, of course. Where is the suggestion to force couples who don't work together to stay together for the kid? Money stress causes a huge number of couples to split. If these couples could be financially supported and have a happy, healthy relationship they may not have otherwise had if they had to deal with financial stress of childcare expenses, what's bad about that? Nobody - not the writer in this article, not the comments you're replying to - is suggesting paying unhappy couples to stay together.