Google's Project 10100

a call for ideas to change the world

Google's Project 10100 (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

WeDo Marriage submitted an entry. Here are the main questions asked by Google and our responses to them.

Google: Describe your idea on one sentence.

A marriage to love, a love to last: a better and brighter future for today's couples and for the children and communities of tomorrow worldwide.

Google: Describe your idea in more detail

WeDo Marriage empowers couples to design, exchange and sustain personalised, mutual commitments and goals based on contract law rather than family law.
          Without imposing their vision of marriage on society as a whole, and working with professionally accredited service providers they can build Marriage Contracts that reflect their Love, Values and Aspirations.
          As happy, fulfilled and productive partners and parents they are equipped to make positive and measureable contributions to their community, locally and globally, now and in the future.

Google: What problem or issue does your idea address?

Experts agree that across the western world over the past thirty years marriage rates have halved and are now at a record low. By the 2030s new marriages will be extinct and most couples will have no legal relationship with each other, and most children will have a legal relationship with only one of their two biological parents.
          We see the terminal decline of marriage not as a demand problem but a supply problem. Most people want to get married; they just don't want the only version of marriage currently available from the only people who currently supply it: the state family law system.

Google: If your idea were to become a reality,
who would benefit the most and how?

WeDo Marriages make happy families; happy families make happy societies; happy societies make a happy world. WeDo families have the purpose, commitment and motivation to invest in a sustainable world, the world they pass on to what is most precious to them: their children.
          They have the conviction and drive to protect cultural heritage; protect the environment; to prioritise renewable energy solutions and to build fairer, safer and more caring and stable interdependent societies. They have the passion to enrich their children's future on this wonderful planet.

Google: Describe the optimal outcome should your idea be
selected and successfully implemented. How would you measure it?

More Love in the world. More individuals entering into relationships in search of enduring love, and more couples advancing into commitment-based, longer-term relationships.
          More parents having children, reducing demographic imbalance; more children nurtured by two parents, enhancing child outcomes in terms of personal development and educational performance. And a society with more net contributors to the common good.

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