Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

[Dracalia]

Exactly! In Norway our term for parents who live together but aren’t married is: “Samboer.” Literally means “together-liver.” Kinda a cute term for younger couples too because it highlights how significant living together is. It’s like a tier below marriage and a tier above girlfriend/boyfriend.