Originally Posted by Unregistered

The government wants people to get married and make babies...two at least, but more if you can afford. They are not concerned with "love" but are very pragmatic about it: either we replace our aging population through natural births, or we have to bring in more and more new citizens.

However, for that to happen, I think they have to have the guts to pass a bill to remove the onerous parts of the WC for the men. Then we can see a potential increase in men tying the knot, and the babies coming. As it is now, and with more and more men being much more educated than their fathers, and hence are much more well read and informed, the WC is a major deterrent to marriage. Young men are increasingly choosing to remain single. Women less so, but because the men do not want marriage, the women remain single.