Thank you for making my point, complete with the new age, feminist Pabulum word with no meaning - PARENTING.
I say, bullshit. Marriage is and always was about the merging and continuity of families, which are (or should be) the stable units of society. A society is as stable or unstable as its fundamental units. The idea of what makes a family may change but not the basic idea that unstable families result in an unstable - and therefore moribund - society.