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The politics of family. (Cover Story).

American Prospect, The,  April, 2002  by Kuttner, Robert

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Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is--Love, forgive us!--cinders, ashes, dust.

--JOHN KEATS, 1819

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SUDDENLY VERY interested in marriage. The principal target of this matchmaking is the welfare population, though many traditionalists would turn the marriage movement into a generalized crusade. It adds up to something that most conservatives ordinarily abhor--social engineering, and in the most intimate of human realms.

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