Thank you, but I've been in treatment with a specialist for two years. I'm not sure how you inferred otherwise from my post. :)
First, fix those "avenues," which larglely exist for the benefit of the poverty, race, and child welfare pimps (particularly by removing restrictions on interracial adoption). Second, there are other avenues to adoption besides the state, particularly as regards children from abroad.
Again, I'm well aware of the particulars around international adoption. It still requires a very stringent qualification process -- one that some do not pass.
There is no tax, survivorship, or medical benefit distinction between married couples intending to raise kids and the life partnerships I envision. The distinction only applies to whether they raise kids. Thus, if you got married with the intent to have kids under that proposal, and then didn't succeed or chose not to have children and couldn't adopt, NOTHING would happen. NOTHING would change. If you chose to get divorced, the life partnership standards would apply to the dissolution.
Okay. So do you envision that couples who apply for a marriage license will attest to their wish to have children in order to get approval? Will there be a process in place to verify the truth of their declaration?
They would already have done that via the selection of the type of license for which they had applied.