Pushed to the Altar: The Right Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion
The arguments in favor of marriage and fatherhood promotion as a cure for poverty are ultimately ideological in nature. There is no solid evidence from the social sciences that marriage results in a higher income for poor women.
Government marriage promotion experiments are funded at the expense of proven poverty relief programs.
Government funding for marriage promotion projects exceeds $100 million annually.
Government marriage promotion initiatives are intertwined with the dramatic erosion of Church/State separation under the Bush Administration's faith-based initiatives.
The arguments for government marriage promotion programs often reflect racial, ethnic, and gender stereotypes, and the programs themselves disproportionately target communities of color - especially African Americans.
Government marriage promotion efforts emerged from and reinforce the work of rightist fatherhood groups and Christian Right organizations.
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