| Well, in a society where marriages fail, many children are born ut of "wedlock", and many more couples are having less children, this aim is becoming far les important. Also, you mention women "sacricficing their careers and health to fraise well-adjusted children". I can safle say that my parents were not married, I've seen my father only once, and I am wll-adjusted, in contrast to people whose parents stayed togetehr only for the child and fought constantly.
Many countries require that you be married to adopt a child. In a society where gay marriage isn't allowed, it becomes at times impossible or two people perfectly capable of raising a child well to do so. If you were given the choice between a loving family and to sped your life an orphan or jugglded through the foster system, what would you pick? And countless children don't get that oppurtunity based purely on the fact that two people in lovde can't get married.
I can go out and get a woman pregnant without any need for an expensive ceremony or a piece of paper legally calling me married. Marriage is simply a document that, in modern society, has lost most of its meaning.
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