DALROCK: Debtors prisons are an essential tool of our new public policy.

These men are being imprisoned . . . to facilitate the destruction of traditional marriage so that a new family structure, one instead based on child support, can take the place of marriage. To understand this, you need to understand the four key objectives which are being achieved by imprisoning so many men.

1) Create the illusion that unwed mothers are not in fact irresponsible welfare queens.

This is crucial to the moral acceptance of unwed motherhood. For our new system to function as desired, single mothers must be absolved of all social stigma. Our new system goes to great lengths to absolve single mothers of stigma, and part of this is removing the stigma of welfare paid to single mothers. . . .

In order to absolve the mothers themselves, we must transfer the entire stigma and responsibility to men. . . .

4) Dis-empower husbands and fathers in order to empower wives and mothers. . . .

Fundamentally, the objective is to create a system where women can become mothers without being beholden to a man. The most obvious incarnations of this involve single motherhood. However, the system is also designed achieve the same goal in a more subtle way, by making husbands powerless for those women who wish to remain nominally married. All of the machinery designed to crush the father and remove him from the home can also be used to change the power dynamics within marriage.