>Well, if you plan to have children, I think you're doing them
>a disservice by not raising them in a married household.

Children benefit most from loving, financially stable (and safe) households where they are well educated and entertained in healthy ways. Marriage does not prevent that, nor does it prevent a man and woman from participating equally in a partnership. I'd rather have that than a dysfunctional marriage any day..most of the marriages I've known about were dysfunctional...some more than others and the children suffered. I am too independent spirited to be a wife but I like the idea of a partnership. But who know? I might change my mind...but I doubt it.