Marriage is worth protecting

The evidence is overwhelming: Marriage is good for children, parents and society.

An impressive team of family scholars headed by Professors Norval Glenn, Steven Nock and Linda Waite (Universities of Texas, Virginia and Chicago, respectively), having surveyed mountains of research, concluded: "Marriage is an important social and societal good, associated with an impressively broad array of positive outcomes for children and adults alike" (Glenn, Nock and Waite, 2002).

While everyone knows single parents who have performed heroically and have produced well-adjusted, productive adult children, the grim impact of single parenthood on the majority of children is clear.

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