October was a good month for champions of the traditional family….
In recent weeks, a barrage of new evidence has come to light demonstrating what was once common sense. “Family structure matters.”
Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released a study that reported “most scholars now agree that children raised by two biological parents in a stable marriage do better than children in other family forms across a wide range of outcomes.”
Another study, co-authored Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, found that states with more married parents do better on a broad range of economic indicators, including upward mobility for poor children and lower rates of child poverty.
In a story on the research the Washington Post summarized – “On most economic indicators, “the share of parents who are married in a state is a better predictor of that state’s economic health than the racial composition and educational attainment of the state’s residents.”
Boys in particular do much better when raised in a more traditional family environment, according to a new report from MIT.
Jonah Goldberg, writing in the Baltimore Sun, reported, “The family, far more than government or schools, is the institution we draw the most meaning from. From the day we are born, it gives us our identity, our language and our expectations about how the world should work. Before we become individuals or citizens or voters, we are first and foremost part of a family. That is why social engineers throughout the ages see family as a competitor to, or problem for, the state.