The same-sex marriage lobby concerns the desires of only a small minority of people

Ignoring the breakdown of marriage is not politically savvy

Carolyn Moynihan 

Despite his own apparently solid marriage, President Barack Obama seems bent on debasing the coin of the institution by refusing to support the Defense of Marriage Act in limiting marriage to couples comprising one man and one woman, and throwing his weight behind the same-sex marriage cause. In this way he, incidentally, garners a lot of pink dollars for his election campaign. 

But does he increase his voting constituency?

The question arises from an article in The Atlantic magazine which itself begins with an intriguing question: What if the goal of women’s equality within the American political system is partly dependent on the persistence of marriage as an institution here? 

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About 41 per cent of births in the US now occur outside marriage, but only 10 per cent of births to college-educated women occur outside marriage while nearly 60 per cent of births to less-educated women are extra-marital. 


Scholars estimate that this trend may account for as much as 40 per cent of the growth in certain measures of inequality in the US (and almost certainly elsewhere).
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