Thing is, I'm sure the pureblood families don't want their kids tied to muggle-borns any more than muggle-borns want to get bound to the Malfoys or whomever -- so that's, mm, most of the population who'd be willing to try and get out of it?
I've seen a few fics where the marriage law was explicitly intended as a post-war attempt to keep a hold on the purebloods, which actually makes more sense to me.
But the best way to encourage more kids would probably be some sort of reward or stipend, really. If you pass a law saying certain people have to have kids, everyone's going to be really pissed off about it, but if you pass a law saying that the parents of half-blood kids get XXX galleons a year and/or free tutoring and childcare, there's going to be a lot of grumbling but much less likelihood of anyone devoting all their time and energy to getting around it.
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Date: 2011-02-04 02:57 pm (UTC)I've seen a few fics where the marriage law was explicitly intended as a post-war attempt to keep a hold on the purebloods, which actually makes more sense to me.
But the best way to encourage more kids would probably be some sort of reward or stipend, really. If you pass a law saying certain people have to have kids, everyone's going to be really pissed off about it, but if you pass a law saying that the parents of half-blood kids get XXX galleons a year and/or free tutoring and childcare, there's going to be a lot of grumbling but much less likelihood of anyone devoting all their time and energy to getting around it.