I think New York has just figured out why there are so many registered single parent families with children born out of wedlock. That's right; Jewish Hasidim in Williamsburg who have never registered their marriage with the state. You see, in their tightly-knit traditional Jewish communities, the Jews of Williamsburg only recognize a Jewish wedding as binding. As far as they're concerned, the city can take it's civil union contract and unify a horse and buggy. That "match made in heaven" is in fact nothing more than a match made by a nut in the City Clerk's office, so no one is about to start giving horses and buggies marital tax benefits (attached though they may be).
Conversely, I don't think anyone is about to start prosecuting this particular sect of Jewish Hasidim in Williamsburg for reaping single-parent tax benefits, because even top lawyers--well versed in the separations of church and state--will have a difficult time explaining in court why a religious marriage "doesn't count." After all, without religion, why would anyone want to get married? The whole concept of sexual responsibility to your God and your conscience originated long before governments were around to hand out petty contracts.
Without this religious knitting, I'm afraid, society seems to fall apart specifically at the marriage seam. Take a look at Europe for example, whose secular population has almost ceased to reproduce and so cannot counterbalance the tremendous influx of Muslim immigrants. European culture without sexual shame has degenerated to housing and defending the likes of Roman Polanski, who would be torn apart anywhere in this country except for Hollywood. I must posit that the only reason we find what Roman Polanski did to be abhorrent, is because we have a national conscience that is dictated by religious values. Those values are then transcribed into Holy Matrimony--yes, the word "holy" is found in Government documents as well as common vernacular--as a manifestation of what it means to be married man and wife.
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TT: Almanac
1 hour ago
well an issue with this system is the millions of dollars that are pumped into this system and tax exemptions. I fully understand the financial burden that they face with only one working parent (even though both of mine work abnormal hours to help send all of their kids to Jewish high schools) but even if that is the case what they are committing is a moral crime. In many cases unfortunately due to the immensely high birth rate in these communities there is also a higher rate of children born with disabilities these mothers are registered as single mothers with anywhere between 6-12 children and if even 1 of them has a disability then the benefit rate goes straight up. These people are doing what they need to in order to support themselves but at whose cost? if this is so socially acceptable why doesn't every Jew do this? clearly there is something here that is not appropriate, it is a violation of the public and of the tax-payers dollars. in fact there are even many rabbis who got together and published an article stating that anyone who gets married under Jewish law but without registering with the state are not religiously married either on the concept of(mitzvah sheh bah min-aveira) a good deed which comes from something evil or a violation is not a good such as getting married by the terms of a lie and stealing.
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