country and further scientific research is needed however they concluded quote at the same time we wish to have marital decline already exist to raise serious concerns about the wisdom of the efforts to deconstruct net that this is having an there in recent years they noted there is statistical evidence of dutch marital to decline including quote a spectacular rise in the number of illegitimate births that's their words by creating a social and legal separation between the ideas of marriage and scholars warn same sex marriage may make young people in the netherlands feel less obligated to marry before having children publication a letter of warning was accompanied by a front page news story in an interview with two of the signatures in the interview dutch law professor and maury said that quote the reputation of marriage as an institution in holland is in serious decline need to have a national debate on how to restore traditional marriage decision to legalize gay marriage said more action certainly never have happened quote in my view that has been an important contributing factor to the decline in the reputation of marriage to quote one of the letters other signatories dr van loon is a dutch citizen who heads a research unit on culture and communications trent university he's done a comparative studies of family life and sexual attitudes in the netherlands and britain also accompanied acquainted with research on american marriage believes that gay marriage  contributed to decline in the reputation of dutch marriage it's difficult to imagine and to quote that the dutch campaign for gay marriage did not have serious social consequences said then l intensive media campaign based on the claim that marriage and parenthood are unrelated that scholars are not the only ones to assert that the marriage has been weakened by legal and social recognition of same sex unions in europe agree this same sex marriage undermines the traditional institution of marriage even if they welcome the other words are saying well we want to welcome the change but this is going to hurt marriage the same sex marriage does not reinforce marriage as many of its proponents argue but rather marry and help except for a variety of other forms such a single parenting cohabitation and multiple partner unions that only serve to weaken traditional marriage and this is what happens when you move away from your standard to be in a union of a man and a woman it weakens the fundamental institution and moves in a lot of other types of arrangement britain's anthony giddens one of the most influential sociologists and all of europe has written that modern marriage is being emptied of any meaning beyond the purely emotional bonding of adults something he termed quote the pure relationship quote this notion of the pure  relationship is being widely used by european social scientists to explain why so many parents now marriage when having a child is an experiment in a relationship that could possibly lead to marriage rather than a reason to get married in the first place it's clear that the institution of marriage has been defined down to mean simply a shared affection between two adults this is precisely how the advocates of same sex marriage define marriage an adult relationship marriage as an institution designed to keep mothers and fathers together and for the of their family and for their children german sociologist elizabeth also highly influential contend that rising rates of parental cohabitation and out of wedlock births indicate that marriage while seemingly alive is in the old notions of marriage and family are giving way to domestic situations in which individuals make up their own rules as individual choice hollows out the old institutions such as marriage and family that used to guide our choices is authors actually embrace and celebrate the instability of the brave new family system hole in th family dissolution teaches children a hard but necessary lesson about our new social world now is that the sort of message that we want to send and it's the message that's coming through the courts if we don't define this legislatively the work of norwegian sociologist terry monti has frequently used by european social scientists to put the movement to legalize same sex unions in contexts welcome same sex marriage as a way of ratifying marriage innovation that affirms in advances marriage is ongoing decline same sex marriage has been adopted she argues precisely because marriage is becoming an increasingly empty institution is that the message that we want to send in the united states many sociologists are of the same opinion one argues that social change conventional sexual in domestic relations and undermines traditional marriages but also believes that all these are signs of the decline of the traditional family from same sex unions to births to cohabiting parents to mothers who are single by choice or combining to release individuals from the constraint of traditional marriage as president i wanted to conclude on that point further the research results that have taken place in europe this is a big debate isn't a big an important problem an issue we shouldn't kid ourselves about what this is about by saying well we don't really need to do this if we don't do this and it's redefined by the courts that's the track that we're on this traditional institution around which we build family is that what the american people want to do and we've seen them vote in state after state and  without objection mr brown understand there are five bills at the desk do a second reading the clerk will report as thirty two seventy four a bill to create a fair and efficient system to resolve claims of victims for bodily to establish the upper hispanic valley national heritage area h r fifty forestry and active through protections for children and to hold states accountable for the safety and timely placement of children across state lines and for other purposes or fifty four twenty nine and act to direct the secretary of the interior to establish an implemented competitive oil and gas leasing program and so forth and for the purposes in order to place the bills on the calendar under the provisions of rule fourteen i would object to further proceeding leaders be reserved and the senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of nomination and rene marie with all the time until ten twenty equally divided between the two managers or their designate and that the control the majority twelve twelve thirty the minority to fifteen to thirty equally divided between the majority and the minority to thirty three minority control three to four majority control forty five minority controlled by thirty majority control protection amendment tomorrow we'll continue to bait in an orderly fashion with the time divided between the majority and minority moments to go on behalf of the leader of cloture on the motion to proceed to this issue the vote will occur on wednesday and we'll lock in a time certain for that vote sometime during tomorrow's session the first vote of the week then will occur tomorrow ten twenty on a district court nomination as i mentioned this morning  joint meeting wednesday morning at eleven a m when the house will hear from the president of latvia who will address a joint session of congress senators will leave this chime or at ten forty to walk to the hall of the house of