The Atlantic

This is an interesting piece because

a. It recognizes that marriage is a social structures that provide real services to people, often services they don’t anticipate when they’re making a decision to marry or not to marry.

b. The decline of it leaves people who either didn’t get in or got out to be vulnerable to poverty, health needs, etc. and suggests that the government should pick up the slack.

c. The article does not, however, find a way to figure out how to pay for this during a wave when entitlements are expected to recede even for services that are already considered vital.

So, do we are left with the common American conflict: do you create a government economic and well-being incentive to create a non-cash system to meet needs (family) or do you institutionalize the need-meeting with cash.