The problems are not cultural, as the government's plan to promote marriage would suggest.

Under the bill passed today, the government would provide up to $300 million a year for programs to promote healthy, stable marriages.

The Bush administration seized the moment to urge governments to promote marriage.

So conservatives want to write incentives to promote marriage into the new welfare law.

In addition, promoting marriage among young women may have unintended negative consequences.

Social conservatives will be pleased that he is promoting marriage as an institution.

On the other hand, it's been avidly promoting marriage among poor women - the straight ones anyway.

A second population control drive began in 1962 with major efforts focused on promoting late marriages and the use of contraceptives.

In the mid-1990s, efforts were made to promote marriage as part of the emerging marriage movement.

Promoting marriage and fatherhood was supposedly a goal of the 1996 welfare law.