Think of the children

Just to show that there often is a meaningful difference between Britain and the United States and it is a difference for the better as far as UK residents are concerned I want all of you Americans to sit back and imagine that the US Secretary of Education comes out, in public, and makes a statement to the effect that marriage is not a requirement for the raising of children.

You're right. It can't happen there but it can happen here. In the words of Education Secretary Alan Johnson:

"It's the child that is at the centre of this, it's the parenting that matters, it's not the form of the relationship".