I don't still see how infertile people (without children) should be entitled to some incentives meant to keep the birth rate high enough so the population doesn't decline.
I forgot, you live in one of those rare countries where the birth rate being too low is a problem. That said, how much money do you have to give them to make having a kid worth it? I mean, 18 years and thousands to millions of dollars later, none of our tax credits come close to being a gain. But do keep in mind that in other countries marriage and kids and handouts to them are not to try keeping the birth rate up. Most need lower both rates.
Indeed, I'm not married with my girlfriend, like a lot of people in Finland who live in a relationship.
You guys are so romantic in Finland. Makes me wonder about all those romance songs about Finland. Oh right. That's Paris, San Francisco, pretty much everywhere else. We even have movies based in Seattle or about meeting on the roof of the Empire State Building.
Cultural vision of America through TV show names.
We have shows about dresses, planning weddings, bridezillas, wedding cakes, extreme wedding cakes, competitions about wedding cakes, competitions for who has the best wedding. My wife could watch a Netflix marathon of wedding shows for decades straight.
We have 13-year-old girls planning their wedding. When my wife started planning our wedding she got a subscription to Wedding magazine. MONTHLY MAGAZINES!!! There are entire clothing store chains that specialize only in wedding clothes.
Now, come to America and tell almost any woman marriage is just about raising kids and love doesn't need marriage and you will find your relationships last only as long as the alcohol in her blood.
The main reason why people won't get married here before they get children (and maybe not even then) is that in a divorce all belongings are equally parted, also those gained before the marriage.
We call it a prenuptial agreement. We have so much marriage we have perfected not having bad marriages financially ruin you.
The inheritance rights aren't that important IMO that we should get married yet;
Because you don't care about making a lifelong commitment to her. Gay people who want to be married want to make a lifelong commitment and give each other power of attorney, financial beneficiary, and various other legal statuses. Those legal statuses are important because if your parents can make financial or legal decisions in your place better than a person you are claiming to be in love with for life then you have issues. Considering how often my mom and I argue about what is best for me vs how often my wife agrees with me, my parents are the last people I want that to fall to. If I were gay it would fall to my parents unless I spent thousands of dollars on getting legal documents to transfer that status.
in a case of death my wife (girlfriend) would get all my belongings if I were married, if not, my parents would get them - I just don't see the death of either of us happening soon, or at least it's pretty improbable.
Or you think like a teenager and think you are near invincible.
Well, here the most eager supporters of gay marriage said a few years ago that the "registered relationship" (gay marriage without adoption rights) will absolutely be the last step - they seem to have a pretty short memory or then they were lying.
Setting aside past claims, by likely different supporters than you have today, why shouldn't they be allowed to adopt? If you have kids in need of a home and not enough good heterosexual homes then why not homosexual couples?
But don't you think that polygamous marriage is naturally the next step in the liberalisation?
In a nation that has to socialize bribing people to have kids why wouldn't you support polygamy. One guy being able to produce five legitimate kids at once sounds like a good way to help boost the population.
People always seem to be really eager to change things that have been forever (or literally forever), but often they just lead to instability.
Just look at the US. They had slavery for nearly 100 years and then some crazy liberals thought to end it and started a civil war. Then for nearly another hundred years black people weren't granted the exact same rights and some new crazy liberals (who said ending slavery was the end of it 100 years before) fought for equal rights and the streets erupted into riots, guys were hung, crosses were burned and sheets were cut up. We still haven't seen the end of that instability after 60 years.
If I really were in a small minority of people wanting to keep the society as it is and just subtly changing it, I would have nothing to do but just approve the changes the others want, but since we're roughly one half of the society, I'm willing to try to keep the society as it is. Actually currently, the majority of our parliament is against gay marriage (as really "marriage", not expanding the adoption rights in the "registered relationship" thingy so it'd be identical to gay marriage, just not called "marriage") and about 60% (of the MPs) are generally conservative, so I'm not alone with my thoughts.
Google "tyranny of the majority"
While I firmly believe that the primary purpose of any married couple is to provide a caring environment in which to raise children,
Does the rest of the world think this way? Does love and a public commitment to someone you want to spend your life with mean nothing outside of the US?
