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This is really gross and totally wack. Are we seriously supposed to keep families intact because otherwise it's too expensive for the government, order iressa no prescription. Ri-i-i-ght, billig kaufen iressa. Let's all stay in marriages, regardless of how happy or fulfilling they make us, because we don't want to be a burden on the state. Wait, I've got an idea. How about un-burdening family relationships by instituting something really crazy like universal childcare. Order iressa no prescription, Oh, right. Not gonna happen under a Harper government. Rats.

Here's the final, heterosexist closer, if you're not convinced already:

All children deserve to grow up in a household with their own married [code: straight] parents. Supporting strong families is the right thing to do; it's also the financially responsible choice, for individual families and for Canada as a whole.

This kind of unanimous, unqualified, ra-ra parade for (hetero) marriage makes me feel like I need to go to the bathroom. Sure, I'm all for marriage--I even got myself a husband of my own. But the idea of maintaining a nuclear version of the family for the sake of minimizing economic costs to the state is ridick.

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1 Tannis 04.07.09 at 9:59 am: But Sabine, our role as good, demure women is to ensure that our family unit *is* happy and if it’s not, we’re not working hard enough!

The whole idea that parents should stay in unhappy marriages is gross. How many of us know kids who’s parents had an arrangement like that? Invariably, it ends up imploding on itself later in a much worse way after the child/children are already damaged from living in dysfunction and unhappiness day in and day out.
2 Erika 04.07.09 at 10:37 am: See, I read that and wonder why more people aren’t for gay marriage – seems to make sense that the same would hold true in non-hetero marriages.
Anyway, yes, the article is ridiculous- and I too am a fan of marriage (and married). But, it is very dangerous to say that people should stay married to benefit the state and save the tax payer money. Maybe, instead of forcing impoverished single people (most likely women) to rely on state assistance we should look at the division of property and spousal/child support regulations. It all reeks of the 1950’s lala land of ‘happy’ marriages and ‘perfect’ children. We have learned our lessons from those years of just not talking about things like unhappy marriages, divorce, abuse, etc… it would be a shame to spiral back into that trap.