Personaly, I like the idea
Conservative leader David Cameron said in his party conference in October: "Marriage is not just a piece of paper. It pulls couples together through the ebb and flow of life.
"It gives children stability. And it says powerful things about what we should value. So yes, we will recognise marriage in the tax system."
Conservative backbenchers are pressing for their party's election pledge to introduce transferable tax allowances worth up to £150 a year to be implemented during the current parliament.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said the idea of tax breaks for married couples is wrong, and would not work.
The deputy prime minister told Sky News there were "philosophical differences" with the Lib Dems' coalition partners, the Conservatives, over the issue.
He said there was a limit on what the state "should seek to do in organising people's private relationships".
I'm not so much in agreement with tax breaks for married couples as opposed to benefits that encourage couples to live apart ( or at least claim to).
I am opposed to the state trying to impose it's moral values upon anyone
I love my own I REALLY dont like any bugger trying to make me adopt theirs.
Completely outdated thinking showing how out of touch the Torys are. Money would be better spent doing proper checks on those that claim to live alone when they are in fact living with a working partner but still claiming housing bennefit etc etc etc.
It seems unfair to those of us who would love to be married to the person they live with but sadly cant be because of the way divorce laws work !
I believe Marriage does work. Marriage, in one form or another predates recorded history. It has taken place in one form or another for many thousands of years. So if it did not work, or was out dated as many suggest it woulds have died out a long time ago. This suggests to me, that it is as relevant today as it always has been.
I do not think it has to be anything connected to religion, as no one has to go to Church to get married if they do not wish to.
Married parents are ten times more likely to stay together than cohabiting couples with children, according to research.
The study also showed cohabiting has become a less stable form of relationship compared with 18 years ago, with couples more likely to separate.
Figures show that in 1992, 70 per cent of couples who had children after they were married stayed together until their child's 16th birthday.
This increased to 75 per cent in 2006, showing that marriage has become a more stable family background for youngsters.
However, only 36 per cent of cohabiting parents stayed together until their son or daughter reached 16 in 1992. By 2006, just 7 per cent of couples who were unmarried when their child was born were still cohabiting by their 16th birthday.
That doesnt support the theory either.
Firstly....seems easy to find this £150 per married couple a year. Not sure how many married couples there are...but guessing a fair few !! ....yet we are told we have no money and we need to cut in every department ????
Fact is people won't even notice £150 a year... a week !! It won't make more people get married. It won't make more couples stay together. It won't stop people getting divorced. Another gimmick to try and deflect from other bad news.
If we have money spare lets do something to stimulate the economy. Build a new school...build anew hospital...build a new sprts centre....anything that actually gets people working.......and hey ho...we get some money back then as well in tax !!!
We got married for our own reasons, which we took the opportunity to share with loved ones on the day.
It never entered my head that it would make our relationship more stable or last longer. I cannot begin to understand why it would do so.
