Right-wing "marriage promotion" programs are an excuse for shafting the poor, and do nothing to reduce the obstacle that make poor people's marriages fail: poverty itself.

The article also shows that ease of access to divorce has nothing to do with successful marriages.

As for Ross Douthat's idea of trying to force women to have babies so that they might feel it necessary to get married, it's not only a nonsequitur, it is perverse. We need fewer babies to be born.