Marriage promotion

Short description: Neoliberal policy which promotes marriage

Marriage promotion is a policy aiming to produce "strong families" for the purposes of social security; as found in 21st-century American maternalism.[1][2]

## United States politics

This promotion has its roots in the roots in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act.[3]

Childbirth with marriage is supported along with the marriage promotion as two people can raise a baby better than an unwed mother or father.[4] Marriage was promoted in the 1990s in order to promote family values. Rising divorce rates in the 1980s and 1990s in addition to plummeting marriage rates,[4] however, allowed then U.S. President George W. Bush to pass a nationwide marriage promotion law in the 2000s.

One randomized controlled study reported that the most effective marriage promotion program simply provided assistance for job stability.[5]

## References

1. ↑ "Not Just Maternalism: Marriage and Fatherhood in American Welfare Policy". Oxford Journals. http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/1/24.short?rss=1. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
2. ↑ "Legal Momentum: What is Marriage Promotion". Legal Momentum. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20110722153527/http://www.legalmomentum.org/our-work/sfr/what-is-marriage-promotion.html. Retrieved 2011-06-01.
3. ↑ "Marriage Promotion". Dollars and Sense. http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2005/0105olson.html. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Nock, Steven L., Laura Ann Sanchez, and James D. Wright. Covenant Marriage: The Movement to Reclaim Tradition in America: Rutgers University Press, 2008. UNC-CH Online Library. Web. 8 Nov. 2009. <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uncch/docDetail.action?docID=10275489>.
5. ↑ One Day, Two Dollars

* Long, George (1875). "Lex Papia Poppaea". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: 691–692.

## See also

* Bachelor tax
* Marriage
* Pro-natalism

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