Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
AI OverviewDoes the Swedish government incentivise marriage?No, the Swedish government does not directly incentivize marriage through financial benefits or policies that favor married couples over cohabiting couples, as it has deliberately eliminated marriage as a distinct social and legal institution. Instead, Swedish family policy emphasizes individualism and provides robust social benefits like generous parental leave, affordable childcare, and free healthcare that are available to all families, regardless of their marital status. While marriage is an option, it is not required to access most rights or benefits, and cohabiting couples enjoy similar legal protections to married couples.
Emphasis on Individual Rights and Co-habitationLegal Equality:Swedish law provides similar rights and responsibilities to both cohabiting and married couples, meaning many legal benefits are not tied to marital status.Independent Filings:Married individuals in Sweden file their taxes separately, underscoring the focus on individual rights over a collective household.Generous Social Benefits for All FamiliesUniversal Support:The government offers a comprehensive welfare system that includes subsidized parental leave, high-quality and affordable childcare, free healthcare, and free mental health services.Promoting Gender Equality:Policies aim to encourage both parents to work, supporting the use of household and childcare tasks, which helps both married and cohabiting couples.Historical ContextDismantling of Marriage as an Institution:The shift away from marriage as a central institution began long before the issue of same-sex marriage became prominent.Focus on Equality:This evolution was partly an effort to increase equality within family structures and to provide similar benefits to different types of family formations, including same-sex couples and cohabiting partners.
44:00 Marriage is a sign of status.
46:00 Men want a sex object and women want a meal ticket.
48:00 Remaining attractive to our spouse
49:00 The wealthier partner fears being divorced under the rules of no fault divorce.
50:00 Gold diggers
54:00 Bachelors with their little black book of willing fornicatresses
Paying the prostitute to go away after sex
55:00 Marriage is having someone to remember things with you.
56:00 Answering Elliott's Islamophobic questions
58:00 Immigrant labour
59:00 The browning of Britain
1:00:00 Unstable white people
1:01:00 Teacher with mental health problems and gnawed knuckles
1:02:00 Christianity
1:03:00 Family values and the marriage license
1:04:00 Married parenting is crucial for the next generation.
1:05:00 Shaming
1:06:00 Patriarchy would restore the dominance of married fathers.
1:07:00 Family is a group of buddies with hierarchy.
1:08:00 The Victorians would have no problem with sharia.
1:09:00 The Trinity
1:10:00 Ockham's Razor
The Founding Fathers
1:11:00 E Michael Jones's views on the Trinity
1:12:00 E Michael Jones uses Jews as a stick to beat Anglicans with.
1:13:00 Not even Jews listen to rabbis.
1:14:00 Heretical Jews
Multiple Truth Hypothesis
1:16:00 Feminism is controversial in China.
1:17:00 A peculiarly American ethnicity
1:18:00 Anglophobia
1:19:00 Ruth Jones is Episcopalian, apparently.
1:20:00 Doooovid is an eccentric.
1:22:00 When Daniel Haqiqatjou mentioned Doooovid
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