I am well aware of the facts you mention.....however in the court system today it is "Facts be dammed". Anyway...in our society there seems to be a desire to desire to support, fund and encourage insanity, stupidity sloth and any number of other negative things. My own sister, being divorced and having 2 girls to get through college has had both of them certified learning disabled and one as suffering from post traumatic stress disorder in order to get government grants to pay for schooling. It is all bullshit...but the government will pay for it so disabled children were created. More defectives and nitwits are apparently a good thing since the government funds them.

You know, they've always talked about the separation of church and state and finally someone is actually doing something practical about it.

I think what the Founding Fathers meant was they didn't want a church, ie the Church of England, meddling in government.

I don't believe for an instance that they did not intend for those involved to not call upon God (of their choice) for guidance in guiding the newly formed country and solving the problems it faced.

Freedom to practice their religion as they so chose was one of the biggest reasons for coming to America. Why in the world would they then write it out of the lives of those that were chosen to govern them?

Did you never take a science class? Relatives don't get married because of the very real danger of birth defects because if the parents share a defective gene the chances of their children having it are drastically increased.

This is not myth but scientifically proven. So unless both parties are of the same sex or have been neutered it's not only not a good idea but more than a little creepy.

Think about Woody Allen marrying his adopted daughter. They aren't even related and that's just strange IMO.

Love Joanie. A very underated poet/musician.

And go round and round and round
In the circle game *

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town
And they tell him take your time it won't be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through

Joni Mitchell

As personified by the Mythic King Akasha.
One of the things I've always been impressed with are the 3 tragedies. They are: The tragedy of ignorance, knowledge and desire. Are you familiar with this? Ignorance is when something is about destroy you and you haven't a clue (an auto accident). Knowledge is when someone is being destroyed and you are helpless to help them ( a surgeon who cannot save his patient). Desire (the most insidious) You are a circle within a circle The outer circle represents your desires. You grow and grow until you encompass the outer circle, only to find that now there is a new outer circle.Ah, those Hindus.

Good. Now get out of the business of public education and we're on our way!

The government should work for the people, not work the people.

Good point on the religious proponents that championed their version of family values.
Some of the values that I speak of is responsibility
For your actions ,teach your children manners and responsibility, earning your own way, be honest and caring for your family, live ethically, live a life to be proud of, respect others, that type of thing.

The Akashic records (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") are collectively understood to be a collection of knowledge that is encoded in the aether; i.e. on a non-physical plane of existence. .
The Akashic Records are understood to have existed since the beginning of The Creation and even before. Just as we have various specialty libraries (e.g., medical, law), there are said to exist various Akashic Records (e.g., human, animal, plant, mineral, etc) encoding Universal lore. Most writings refer to the Akashic Records in the area of human experience but it is understood that all phenomenal experience as well as transcendental knowledge is encoded therein.

This is what should happen throughout the 50 States and all territories. Government shouldn't be in the business of regulating marriage nor collecting fees for it!

No "Fairness" in any of it, as it's mostly about "tax the rich", as if those should be punished for producing things of value.

The tag license is one that really hacks me off. The newer the car the higher the taxes, where's the fairness in that?

I agree that having a lot of fatherless children around is a bad thing, mainly because of the values a father will usually teach his children, including responsibility. However, I do not share your love for "traditional values" because high on that list are both religious nonsense and the restrictions it imposes on sexual behavior among adults (which are obsolete, mainly because of birth control, to the extent they ever made sense at all).

But the way I would discourage women from raising children by themselves when they can't afford to is by (1) rolling back the child-support law to what it was in 1900 (no wedding, no child support) and (2) eliminating the welfare subsidy for having children. Then if you can't support your children, you would have to put them in foster care or go to jail for child neglect. I would expect this program to greatly improve life outcomes for the children affected, because it would remove them from the homes of mothers who only had them as a means of collecting welfare benefits in place of getting jobs (and who are therefore very bad role models, in whose footsteps the kids are now very likely to follow). More to the point, it would mostly prevent kids with those poor prospects in life from being born at all.

Finally, I would legalize prostitution so that guys would have a good alternative to getting married if they're not really interested in raising children in the first place.

(Aside: I find it quite amusing that the people who talk the most about "the attack on family values" -- the religious right -- are probably more wedded than anybody else to the one government program that really started the breakup of families -- Social Security. First created by Bismarck in the 1870s, social security was what made it feasible for adults to move out of grandpa's house and form nuclear families. Is there anyone here who'd want to go back?)

The contract of marriage should spell out what happens to the child (and who is responsible) in a variety of possible situations. If one comes up that wasn't anticipated, some court will have to decide, just as is true now. But I would hope that the parties in their contract would be able to take control of a lot of cases where the courts today would decide on a whim.

In contrast (apparently) to the people talking about yin and yang, I believe contracts should be as specific as possible, and that freedom of contract should be near-absolute, because it reduces uncertainty and thus the need for, and cost of, litigation.

No, it's not currently legal in any US state, but I'm saying it ought to be.

Thank you.
Personally I'm more affected by the Hindus.They believe that you and I and all living things are a part of a universal intelligence, a great all, if you will. When you die you may return to it if you've been very good or you can be sent back, hence reincarnation. Depending on your status you could be a cow a cockroach, a dog or a human, the highest human being a Brahman, just one step below your atman (soul) returning to the GA. There's more, but the BW just called me to dinner. I never miss that if I can help it.

Yes. You cannot have light without darkness. Good is meaningless without evil. At the next get-together, it'll be, "OK, everyone Yin on the left side of the table, everyone yang on the right side, mugwumps in the center. Please, no conversations until after the dessert is served.

two licenses already required for most everyone - auto license and driver's license - and required insurance, even tho it's not a "license".

In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (also yin–yang or yin yang, 陰陽 yīnyáng "dark–bright") describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.

This goes well with a warm meal.

Hmm. I'll construct a sign that says: I"LL YIN IF YOU"LL YANG.
Right over the dinner table.

If you were replying to jdg you follow NealS as he responded first. If not I don't know.

The bill says the contract would be recorded for those legal implications. It doesn't take a village to raise a child it takes a loving family.

I do and the attack on family values that I witnessed over the past many decades by the leftist's is almost over ( not much remains to destroy). The black community has been devastated the most by the lack of a participating father to raise a well mannered individual. That problem is not limited to any ethnic group IMHO.
The culprit ultimately is the entitlement of collectivism enabling a non working mother to have multiple kids all feed and sheltered for no effort.

Your points are considered and well made. It breaks my heart to see the disaster of a life the average out of wedlock child has and what it has done to our society...hence my use of the term "Vicious Child Abuser". Not all fathers are perfect and sometimes a bird can lay an egg on the ground and successfully raise a chick without the preparation of a nest...but statistically....you are far better off with a nest...[father that is]! [I hope you catch my crazy analogy here]