Marriage promotion
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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
- ^ "Not Just Maternalism: Marriage and Fatherhood in American Welfare Policy". Oxford Journals. Archived from the original on 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
- ^ "Legal Momentum: What is Marriage Promotion". Legal Momentum. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-06-01.
- ^ "Marriage Promotion". Dollars and Sense. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
- ^ 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. UNC-CH Online Library. Web. 8 Nov. 2009. <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uncch/docDetail.action?docID=10275489>.
- ^ One Day, Two Dollars
- Long, George (1875). "Lex Papia Poppaea". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: 691–692.