And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.
I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.