welfare and relationships?

Question

To all readers, please note: the following is a discussion question. I am curious about how people would treat a welfare program, when their state government decided to order all singles to marry. Purpose: A married couple would receive LESS benefits than two singles. If the state chose to match partners Not by compatability, but by alphabet. If a state started with two lists, one male, and one, female, and assigned "Abraham Adamson" to "Annabelle Adams", how would most people react. Even more intriguing: What if the state did not take race into account, matching black women, to white men, and so on, just by virtue of whose name was next on the list. Also, what IF the terms of the marriage contract was that neither party could get divorced, for 5 years, or face total loss of all welfare benefits, for about 10 years. I would be very curious to know how the church, especially the CATHOLIC church would respond to such a welfare program. What do you think????

Answer 1

wow.......ordering people to get married.....i think alot will still end in divorce, there would be an extreme amount of domestic violence......and adultery.....we would end up paying for it anyway...so no not a good idea.....