The code ought to encourage marriage, not discourage marriage.

The words "families with" were added to the name in 1962, partly due to concern that the program's rules discouraged marriage.

We simply argue that three decades of declining wages on legal jobs have discouraged work and marriage, while raising crime rates, among young black men.

Each sect claimed a monopoly on the truth, and discouraged marriage between members of different sects.

One debate: should national laws discourage or encourage transnational marriage?

States could use the money in any way they wanted to help indigent families with children or to discourage childbearing outside marriage.

Our government should not tax, and thereby discourage, marriage, so we reduced the marriage penalty.

But once nations start to discourage marriage, the extended family starts to disappear.

Social conservatives argue rightly that government should not discourage marriage.

That fact is usually enough to discourage marriage with aliens.