All You Need Is Love?

"The second lesson of history is that the time has passed when we can construct our social policies, work schedules, health insurance systems, sex education programs — or even our moral and ethical beliefs about who owes what to whom — on the assumption that all long-term commitments and care-giving obligations should or can be organized through marriage."

Stephanie Coontz writes about the history of marriage and how differently it is organized today for the CATO Institute. Read her interesting & informative look back on the history of marriage and what that history means to us today here.