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Structurally our societies are usually oriented around people finding romantic life partners, and the state recognizes and makes life easier for people in these relationships. Modern life, especially with the current housing shit going on in North America, is much harder if your preferred way to live is a single income person living alone. This definitely disadvantages aro/ace people, though I’m not sure I’d call it discrimination.
Tangentially related, but I can’t miss an opportunity to bring up Elizabeth Brake’s really interesting paper, Minimizing Marriage. If the whole thing looks a little long I’d recommend reading at least chapter 7 to get the heart of her proposal, it’s a real eye opener.
It most definitely is discrimination. Because discrimination is "treating two things differently according to a discriminator". Such as living alone or with a registered partner.
Now, the purpose of this is obvious (having a child is expensive and a good thing in the state's eyes). Such cases where the discrimination "makes sense" (as it evens the playing field isntead of skewing it further) is usually termed as "positive" discrimination.
But as it technically fits the core requirement of discrimination, it is discrimination.