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Your Response: So should we also prohibit straight couples from getting married if
they’re biologically incapable of having kids? What about if they simply don’t want
kids?
The percentage of married couples with children has been declining over the last 25
years, but couples who don't want kids can still get married. And does adoption count?
Because around 19 percent of same-sex couples adopt kids.
In addition, there are plenty of legal benefits — like hospital visitation rights, joint tax
returns, welfare benefits for spouses, and estate inheritance — that married couples
enjoy regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. Should the
government prevent straight couples from receiving those benefits until they have
kids?