Bill would make schools teach students to put marriage before kids
January 22, 2026
Indiana may become the latest state to require public schools teach students to wait until marriage to have children — part of a newly popularized, yet controversial, effort based on an early 2000s theory that following a specific "success sequence" could virtually eliminate poverty.
The sequence, which Senate Bill 88 adds to a list of "good citizenship instruction," includes earning a high school degree, getting a full-time job and waiting to have kids after marriage.
