Does it matter?

I truely believe that couples should be married before starting a family, altho not essential. The reasons I think this - a) generally speaking if a couple gets married they are serious about being together and making the commitment (obviously some couples get married for the sake of it but generally I think its a huge commitment). b) Its easier to tie up the loose ends ie what surname does the child have if the couple aint married. Theres a few other reasons but just throwing these into the pot.

it only matters if your religious. if your not i don't think it matters much. it only matters a little because usually people who have babies together before they get married don't stay together long. they just take care of their baby. so i think everyone should get married before having a baby because its a commitment to eachother. and i think a baby would want their parents together and not separated....

Marriage is a piece of paper and it doesn't mean that a couple will stay together for the rest of their lives. The most important thing is that the mother is loving and caring towards her baby. It is excellent if the father is supportive and caring towards the mother and baby. A couple might get married and next year the wife might get pregnant. Early the next year the baby might be born. Two years later another baby might be born. However three years later the couple might get divorced. So the children end up in a one parent family. A single mother from the very start might be less upsetting for the child.

i don't think it really matters because even if you are married there is no way to know if you will be together forever because nothing comes with agarentee these days so as long as you love each other and want to have a baby together and can aford to then go for it there is nothing wrong with it. plus you don't need a piece of paper to show how much you love each other , to clear this up yes i am married and have been for 11 years and we have 4 children and i had one before we got married . even if we did not get married but stayed together we would still have the children.

I think in todays society it has become acceptable for people in relationships to have a baby without being married, in the ideal circumstance im sure everyone would like to be married before they have children but modern day relationships arent necessarily like that, they can take on so many different forms.