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Old 06-04-2008, 02:15 AM   #10
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Re: what is marriage for you?

I don't think there is anything in the law that states that when you get married you must "intend" to have kids. There are tons of married people who are not having kids, not planning on having kids, or not having "enough" kids. I don't think it has anything to do with having/wanting kids at all. If the criteria is having kids, then what about those infertile married couples who can't have kids either, or the couples who just choose to NOT procreate? Should their marriages get annulled because they can't fulfill the main reason for their marriage which, supposedly, is to pop out kids?

Marriage-for-breeding is an outmoded way of thinking. We know in this day and age that you don't need to be married to have kids, and also you can be married yet choose not to have kids. Tying the ability/desire to procreate to the idea of marriage just does not make sense to me.
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