Three Questions for the New Marriage Movement
Back in the year 2000, in the old new marriage conversation, we said in The Marriage Movement: A Statement of Principles: “Marriage is a universal human institution, the way in which every known society conspires to obtain for each child the love, attention and resources of a mother and father.” In today’s new marriage conversation, we say “because marriage is the main institution governing the link between the spousal association and the parent-child association, marriage is society’s most pro-child institution.”
That is the difference gay marriage makes about how we converse about marriage…
via Advice for A New Conversation on Marriage: Maggie Gallagher « Family Scholars.