[Torie]

The only little problem with laissez faire co-habitation arrangements are the often ensuing rug rats. Sometimes when I hear the libertarian cant, I think of The Lord of the Flies. Sometimes simple "answers" are just simpleton.

[asmith92008]

Libertarians should read Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work by Jennifer Roback Morse. She points out that a libertarian deconstruction of the family would lead to a world of unsocialized children who would turn a libertarian world into anarchy.

In the end, the reality is that libertarians take the worst instincts of conservatism and liberalism, greed and unrestrained hedonism, and create an abhorrent political philosophy.

[GovernmentShrinker]

And government's exclusive licensing of monogamous heterosexual marriages has prevented the births of children from "laissez faire co-habitation arrangements"? And from casual sex that doesn't even involve cohabitation? And from religious polygamist families? And to Michael Jackson's surrogates?

Earth to Torie: Government-issued licenses have no effect on fertility.