There is some slight comfort to be found in the fact that, for five years, the percentage has quit heading upwards. It remains the case that some 1.3 million children are being born out of wedlock annually, which is to say, they are being born to life expectations significantly worse than if they had been born into homes with a married mother and father. If you doubt that, you merely need to investigate the statistics, as Patrick Fagan has done. Children in single-parent homes, he has also demonstrated, are far more likely to become involved in crime. There may be some remedies government can employ to correct things.
Some feminist groups make the point that two-parent families can be bad for children, which is true.
It is also true that if you take a ship across the English Channel as opposed, say, to swimming, the ship may sink. You are still more likely to make it to the other side on the ship. It is up to all of us in the values we express. The Daily Camera. All rights reserved.