Marriage promotion

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. Archived from the original on 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  2. ^ "Legal Momentum: What is Marriage Promotion". Legal Momentum. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-06-01.
  3. ^ "Marriage Promotion". Dollars and Sense. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  4. ^ a b Nock, Steven L., Laura Ann Sanchez, and James D. Wright. Covenant Marriage: The Movement to Reclaim Tradition in America: Rutgers University Press, 2008.
  5. ^ One Day, Two Dollars
  • Long, George (1875). "Lex Papia Poppaea". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: 691–692.

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