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Marriage promotion is a nationalist policy aiming to produce "strong families" for the purposes of social security; as found in 21st-century American maternalism.
One of the earliest known marriage promotion laws, the Lex Papia Poppaea, imposed penalties on those who refused to get married before a certain age. Provisions against adultery were also made in this law. Caelibes could not take an hereditas or a legacy ; but if a person was caelebs at the time of the testator's death, and was not otherwise disqualified , he might take the hereditas or legatum, if he obeyed the law within one hundred days, that is, if he married within that time. If he did not comply with the law, the gift became caducum.
The George W. Bush Administration had focused on government marriage promotion as the solution to the high poverty rates experienced by single-parent families, diverting to marriage promotion tens of millions of dollars appropriated by Congress for other purposes, and successfully lobbying Congress to establish a federal marriage promotion program. These programs seek to get unmarried parents to marry and to deter separation or divorce.