I’m so, so, so against tax breaks for marriage. So very much in favour of tax breaks for people looking after children.
Speaking from personal experience, I have one child born to a relationship that was not a marriage and one born to a relationship that is a marriage. The idea that one of my children is less worthy of a bit of temporary community support because of choices I made about my relationships just makes me cross.
Particularly, when part of the underlying message of tax breaks for marriage is bound up in a view taht “your conformist relationship is approved of in a way that makes society approve of *my* conformist relationship.”
That's before I get to it being used as a tool to activelly disapprove of other people's non-conformist relationships.
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Speaking from personal experience, I have one child born to a relationship that was not a marriage and one born to a relationship that is a marriage. The idea that one of my children is less worthy of a bit of temporary community support because of choices I made about my relationships just makes me cross.
Particularly, when part of the underlying message of tax breaks for marriage is bound up in a view taht “your conformist relationship is approved of in a way that makes society approve of *my* conformist relationship.”
That's before I get to it being used as a tool to activelly disapprove of other people's non-conformist relationships.