Why not abolish marriage certificates for everyone?

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Well, abolishing marriage certificates is the same as abolishing marriage.
Marriage is a legal bond, its an institution, a public institution.

If you do not wish it to be certified by the state, you might as well abolish it.
Though really, I'd say that anyone who wishes to do this for the sake of a "sexual minority" is a madman.

Aren't there enough people in this world?

I think this is a rather stupid question, if you don't wish to have children, you're free not to have them. But having children is actually the thing that keeps a species from going extinct. By this faulty logic, we should start a third world war and make sure that we're making extensive use of all forms of nuclear, chemical and biological weaponry to make you say "there aren't enough people in the world".

As for your inquiry about "why do we want more of society to be married and have children? " is that a child born into marriage, therefore into a proper family is able to support the child well into college without the child having to actually work to support his single mother, or the single mother having to work more than two jobs to support her children.

That's how I got my diploma. I didn't have to work a part time job to get it, my family was there to support me, and I assure you, not just my father and mother, but my uncles, my aunt, my grandparents...Here, family is everything, but you seem to be so eager to discredit its use to society.

First off, abolishing marriage certificates is hardly abolishing marriage. Do you need the state to tell you that your relationship has value? If so I fear your priorities in life. If you want a religious ceremony, wear a ring and call yourself married, you are free to do so without a piece of paper from the government. Also it's hardly for a sexual minority as I stated in the opening post. There are more unmarried adults than married adults in the United States now (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/us/26marry.html?_r=0), yet they actually have to pay more taxes than their married counterparts. Also obviously children keep the species going. I don't think that you seriously thought I was suggesting that nobody have children. That's crazy and also obviously not what I was saying. People will have children without a tax incentive to do so and that's what we should get rid of.