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Why marriage & fatherhood might not matter as much as you think

Explore the complexities of single motherhood and its impact on children, contrasting views from the cultural Left and Right.

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While I was on blogging hiatus single motherhood and the whole Dan Quayle flap came back into the news. Here's Mitt Romney:

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and, at the foundation, the pre-eminence of the family. The power of these values is evidenced by a Brookings Institution study that Senator Rick Santorum brought to my attention. For those who graduate from high school, get a full-time job, and marry before they have their first child, the probability that they will be poor is 2%. But, if those things are absent, 76% will be poor. Culture matters.

I've been ragging on the cultural Left on this weblog recently because of the delusions that those of this bent simply won't let go of in the quest for utopian egalitarianism. But one aspect ...

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