The stability of the family depends on marriage, which becomes a mere protection for society with no other object but the reproducing of that same society. Hence marriage is by nature profoundly conservative. To attack it is to attack the very bases of society.
-- Octavio Paz, The labyrinth of Solitude
Italicized emphases mine. I really liked that phrase.
The italicized premise seems bogus to me.
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