The marriage system has broken down, thus the foundation it provides is no weak. This is why marriage is cautioned against in TRP. While it is still the best option for raising children, the mechanisms that are necessary to mitigate the risks no longer exist in our society. The proper statement would "laws are one of many reasons marriage is CURRENTLY failing as an institution."
How do you know it's the best option for raising children? That's a subjective statement without proof, not an objective one. Marriage is CURRENTLY failing, yes, no argument there.
Nothing will ever be a 100% guarantee so i use insurance, since it functions as a way to mitigate the risks. the analogy does not fit perfectly since you aren't really passing that risk off to someone else, hence the "" marks. Yet again, the system has broken down and the current laws have removed the necessary protections that make the system function. So the proper statement here is "the CURRENT laws don't function"
However, marriage does not act as insurance. 50+% failure rate is no insurance. Again, laws are just one aspect of the problem. I default more to the inherent problem of marriage- if the relationship IS good, then there's no reason to sign contracts. It becomes much less voluntary when you put a marriage on a relationship- not positive in my mind.
If you do not have a better system then your statement is patently false.
This is actually patently false. It's like saying if you don't have something that works better than slavery, you can't say slavery fails. After all there is no utopia, so you must accept slavery and not criticize it until you come up with something better.
Oddly enough, the success of our marital structure and other social conventions are what has separated the west from the rest of this shitty planet for a few centuries, and the result of that success is that we are now desperately trying to destroy everything that brought us to where we are.
Some things are better left in the dust. Like marriage, government, religion and other systems of control. They should not be rescued because they fail to accomplish what they are supposed to.
BTW are you married or have you been married? Just curious.