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Yesterday, in ABC's Key to Success series, Dan Harris (subscription required) told us about the program in Oregon's Clackamas County that tries to strengthen the institution of marriage by obliging engaged couples to delay their wedding ceremony. In Brooklyn, they use the opposite approach, Rehema Ellis told us for NBC's Making a Difference series. There, cohabiting parents raising children together are encouraged to abandon singlehood and participate in mass nuptials, ten couples getting hitched all at once. The plan, dubbed Marry Your Baby Daddy Day, is the inspiration of novelist Maryann Reid, who conceived of it "after she was left at the altar." Reid organizes all-expenses-paid weddings for African-Americans. "People are living together and having children together. Why do they need to be married?" Ellis wondered. Love apparently has nothing to do with it. "It is an issue of security for the family and the child" was Reid's unromantic response.
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