Cohabitation: Largest Threat to Children
Cohabitation: Largest Threat to Children
By Mike McManus
August 25, 2010
The Institute for American Values issued a landmark report, "Why Marriage Matters, Third Edition" which states: "The rise of cohabitation is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's family lives.
"In fact, because of the growing prevalence of cohabitation, which has risen fourteen-fold since 1970, today's children are much more likely to spend time in a cohabiting household than they are to see their parent's divorce."
The report has some good news about divorce: "Children who are now born to married couples are actually more likely to grow up with both of their parents than were children born at the height of the divorce revolution," says the report written by W. Bradford Wilcox who directs the National Marriage Project for the University of Virginia.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Mike McManus
August 25, 2010
The Institute for American Values issued a landmark report, "Why Marriage Matters, Third Edition" which states: "The rise of cohabitation is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's family lives.
"In fact, because of the growing prevalence of cohabitation, which has risen fourteen-fold since 1970, today's children are much more likely to spend time in a cohabiting household than they are to see their parent's divorce."
The report has some good news about divorce: "Children who are now born to married couples are actually more likely to grow up with both of their parents than were children born at the height of the divorce revolution," says the report written by W. Bradford Wilcox who directs the National Marriage Project for the University of Virginia.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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