I'm not saying you can't have children, I am just saying that the payment of support (such as baby bonus, FTB etc) should be restricted to married parents. A scheme like this would make it more of a disincentive for people to have children in bad situations:
1. It is too easy these days for teenagers to get 'knocked up', because the hard working tax payers of Australia are financing their bad decisions.
2. If there were bigger financial disincentives for people to get divorced, then people would firstly, think harder before having children and secondly, be less likely to divorce for trivial reasons.
My wife and sister are both teachers, and both of them swear that 95% of the 'horror students' that they encounter daily come from the 2 backgrounds i have listed above.
More incentives need to be given for people to bring children up in a stable environment, and the fact is that a responsible mother and father are the only ones who can do this. I agree that the 'old fashioned' marriage is a thing of the past, so I'm not saying you have to spend $20grand on a big hoohaa. But i think that there should be a binding contract on parents before they bring a child into the world, so that the best interests of that child are always put first.
There is a reason that humans were created to produce with a male/female relationship, and that is why homosexual relationships can never expect exactly equal rights.