A report published by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, partisan groups that are pushing for the strengthening of marriage as an institution, asserts that there are more children now that are likely to have unmarried parents than divorced ones. The report further states that the incidence of Americans cohabiting and having children has increased twelvefold since 1970....
>>>A report published by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, partisan groups that are pushing for the strengthening of marriage as an institution, asserts that there are more children now that are likely to have unmarried parents than divorced ones. The report further states that the incidence of Americans cohabiting and having children has increased twelvefold since 1970.
W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia is quoted as saying that “There’s a two-family model emerging in American life.” He further describes this two-family model as “the educated and affluent” who enjoy a relatively strong and stable family units in contrast to the other model wherein others are more likely to be consigned to -- unstable and unworkable ones. Moreover, Wilcox said that cohabiting parents are more than twice likely to break up as parents who are married.
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