Duh:we have required marriage licenses for decades in the USA. None of them is codified by a marriage counselor. The license is strictly meant to collect revenue for the salient municipality. So, the OP did not do his research.
Much better to have licensing for conceiving children. Couples wanting to adopt a child must pass multiple tests to be approved for the adoption, answering questions about financial wherewithal, physical and emotional ability to foster a child, and I don’t know what all else. Have you tried to buy a puppy? The paperwork for permission to buy a puppy is much more than is in the paperwork for a marriage license. We let completely unqualified people have children. And we wonder why our society has gone down the tubes, as evidenced by the cesspools on the Internet.
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