The consequences of marriage-absence to the Nation include:
- Poverty and across-the-board growth in runaway social entitlement and other spending attempting to artificially reduce the economic consequences of marriage-absence.
- A shrinking middle class and widening income gap due to transmogrification of two-income families to structurally-weak single-income families.
- Growing tax burdens and fewer taxpayers, driving class-warfare between rich and poor.
- Large numbers of single-income, unmarried individuals cannot afford health insurance, resulting in nationalization of the medical care industry.
- High taxes on businesses and subsequent loss of jobs and factories to foreign soil.
- Destabilization of the dollar due to high rates of home loan foreclosures, business bankruptcy and consumer loan defaults by economically-weak unmarried households.
- An overall moral decline affecting our nation at every level.
- A lack of consistency in legal jurisprudence.
- A false perception that spending massive sums for in-school parenting, discipline, and remedial education can somehow prepare large numbers of children to do well in school.
- Migration of large numbers of individuals into underground informal economies of crime and violence stimulated by and adjunct to the welfare-state apparatus.
- The highest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, at great public expense and loss of productivity.
The consequences of marriage-absence to individuals include:
- Growing numbers of struggling unmarried mothers requiring costly government husbandry and increasing numbers of unmarried men unable to support two households.
- A willingness to destroy unborn children and large numbers of out-of-wedlock pregnancies
- A proliferation of serious and often incurable sexually-transmitted diseases.
- An increase of child abuse, sexualizing of children, and child neglect.
- Participation in the underground economies of crime, drugs, gambling, prostitution, perversion, and pornography.
- Children’s psychological problems, poor school performance, involvement in gangs, the drug culture, teen pregnancy, incarceration, and failure to enter the workforce and advance to higher income levels.
- Insufficient assets for retirement.
- Emotional distress and insecurity for adults and children without intact families.