I focused on the way that marriage has changed. You know, when we first started trying to get equality between men and women, everybody thought, on both sides of the debate, that marriage was going toe done for. Men wouldn't want to live with women who we too independent, and women would walk away from marriages if they could, in fact, be independent. And it looked for a while as though that was correct. The divorce rate shot up. But it turns out that this is, I think, probably the last best hope for marriage, that marriages today, although the rate of marriage is falling, the divorce rate has fallen, and its fallen most for egalitarian couples, educated couples. Nowadays, it's more of a risk to be a male breadwinner/female homemaker, rigidly gendered family, than it is to share breadwinning and domestic chores. So, marriage is changing; it's changing in very exciting ways.
There's been a lot of talk about how do we support marriages, and I think it's really important to help people enter healthy relationships, and government can play a very important role there in providing psychological counseling when they need it, even premarital education. But also, of course, providing clear exit rules so that if a relationship does end, there's not these tremendous warfare, and you don't have one group, or the kids, living in poverty. So, I think it's really important for government to look broader than just marriage itself and try to support individuals developing healthy relationships, meeting their commitments to others, and it's a massive social experiment. It makes some people very uncomfortable, but it offers tremendous opportunities for the way we organize work, community, and our personal lives and our family lives.