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Re:China to begin two-child policy by ksenzee on Thursday October 29, 2015 @12:17PM (#10472189)
"You're still free to have children if you want, but you're only supported by the state if you got a license."

The traditional "license" to have children used to be marriage, and children born without such a license were called illegitimate - i.e. outside the law. It was an unjust system that hurt a lot of innocent children, and we've moved away from it for a reason.

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by humanrebar on Thursday October 29, 2015 @03:23PM (#10473592)
> It was an unjust system that hurt a lot of innocent children

If the current system (where marriage and procreation are notionally separate) were found to hurt a lot of innocent children, would we call our system unjust and abandon it?

I suspect not. The current culture around marriage and parenting didn't evolve from pragmatism as much as (various takes on) ethics, morality, and self-determinism.

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