Ethics

"Traditional Family" Rebounding Some

By Ed Brayton

The American Family Association's news outlet reports:

The New York Times reports that the statistics represent a major trend slowdown between 2004 and a previous survey in 1990 versus a dramatic loss in two-parent homes and an increase in single-female parent homes between 1970 and 1990. Mike McManus, co-founder of Marriage Savers, says the traditional family -- and children who would otherwise suffer the devastating effects of divorce or dysfunctional homes -- could use the good news. He calls the statistics "a good sign" and notes that "more and more marriages are staying together and fewer and fewer children are having [to suffer] these kinds of effects."

You mean families are getting stronger just when gays are gaining civil union and marriage rights around the country? How is that possible? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).