“The State of Our Unions: 2012″ – (first of a two-part series)
“The State of Our Unions: 2012″ (first of a two-part series)
By Mike McManus
January 31, 2013
“As recently as the 1980s, only 13 percent of the children of moderately educated mothers were born outside of marriage. By the late 2000s, this figure rose to a striking 44 percent,” asserts the new annual report, “The State of Our Unions: 2012.”
“The disappearance of marriage in Middle America is tracking with the disappearance of the middle class in some communities, a change that strikes at the heart of the American Dream.”
Yet what we are hearing “even from political and social leaders who think marriage is important is silence, tentativeness, or worse, despair. Even those who believe marriage matters seem to think that nothing can be done.”< ![CDATA[
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2013-01-31 16:18:55
Source: http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=17158
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