MARRIAGE MATTERS
I want to share with you an editorial that was published in U.S. News and World Report, April 12, 1993, by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief. It is entitled “The Crisis of the Kids.” It has been fashionable to glorify the trend toward single-parent families resulting from high divorce rates and unmarried child-bearing. One million kids a year now watch their parents split up, and a like number are born out of wedlock. This selfish rationalization substitutes the happiness of the adult in our moral codes for the well-being of the children. Career and self-fulfillment have gotten ahead of caring responsibility. The results on children have been devastating. The developing child needs love, stability, constancy, harmony and permanency in family life. These needs have been caustically sacrificed in the adult’s quest for freedom, independence and choice. The mantra should be this: marriage matters. Children in single-parent families are six times as likely as children in two parent families to be poor; two to…
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