"She groans each time I pick out a long article and counts the number of pages before she reads. With my persistent nudging, she and Maria begin to pull out the statistics for the children of single parents. From the FBI: 63 percent of all suicides are individuals from single-parent households. From the Centers for Disease Control: 75 percent of adolescents in chemical-dependency hospitals come from single-parent households. From the Children’s Defense Fund: more than half of all youths incarcerated for criminal acts come from single-parent households. And so on."It really does take two, a mom and a dad.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
"Nobody Gets Married Any More, Mister" by Gerry Garibaldi - City Journal
"Nobody Gets Married Any More, Mister" by Gerry Garibaldi - City Journal
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