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New Research Confirms Having Married Parents Helps Kids Get Ahead

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The Social Genome Model...corroborates that family structure is one significant reason children born [to unmarried parents] have lower rates of upward intergenerational mobility.
Tweet This We find that children whose parents are married when they are born do better in life than those whose parents were not married when they were born. Tweet This We should be clear-eyed about the negative effects of single parenthood on children. Tweet This
The impact of family structure, particularly marriage, on children’s well-being has always been a somewhat controversial topic, but that doesn’t make it any less salient. The share of adults who are married has declined from about two-thirds in 1970 to one half in 2023.Some predict that approximately one-third of Gen Z will never marry. Marriage rates are particularly low for those without a college degree.
Some researchers
The short answer is that marriage still matters. And depending on what metric you examine, marriage …

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Tony Smith

We need to state the obvious.

mccallansteve

It's an unbreakable law of God that children desire a Mother and Father. Nothing that the forces of evil can do or say can change that.

Jayjayem Gee

New Research? Yikes!! 🥺

Be patient. Common sense isn’t so common these woke days.

That's the way GOD wants it. A child must have a father and a mother.

How many times have we heard the lie: children are so resilient. I spent 12 years teaching children from broken families. Many of them were wards of the province. There was not one exception that the problem the child faced didn’t originate from a dysfunctional family. And yet there is little talk about this sad reality because it runs counter to the accepted narrative of easy divorce and alternative “family” arrangements. Moreover, children have no political power.