[T]he purpose of marriage . . . has always been to make the family secure, not to redefine what constitutes a family. The family is a more fundamental social reality than a marriage, and so pretending that anything we call a marriage can create a family is misleading. . . . By family, I mean a lasting, socially enforced obligation between a man and a woman that authorizes sexual congress and the supervision of children. . . . There is no society where women alone care for each other and their children; there is non where fathers are not obligated to support their children and the mothers to whom they were born. Not only do men need women, women need men.
James Q. Wilson, The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, pp.24, 29. Cited by Glenn T. Stanton and Dr. Bill Maier, Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, p.23
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