The growing impact of marriage-absence on kids
In four key areas – low-birthweight babies; children living in families whose parents lack full-time employment; children in poverty; and children in single parent families – conditions have worsened.
In addition, the teen birth rate – though below what it was in 2000 – is rising, the first increase in a decade.
While the poverty rate for children remains between 17 and 19 percent during this decade, the 2007 rate of 18 percent means there were 900,000 more children living in poverty than there were in 2000.
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Shouldn't the title read "The growing impact of PARENT-absence on kids"? It seems children are far more affected by a missing parent, married or unmarried, than by the presense of both unmarried parents. Marriage is like religion, children really don't understand its implications nearly as much as when they're older.
Speaking of marriage: Marriage is like war – too easy to get into and too hard to get out of.