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20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms......."Twenty years later, Quayle’s words seem less controversial than prophetic. The number of single parents in America has increased dramatically: The proportion of children born outside marriage has risen from roughly 30 percent in 1992 to 41 percent in 2009. For women under age 30, more than half of babies are born out of wedlock. A lifestyle once associated with poverty has become mainstream. The only group of parents for whom marriage continues to be the norm is the college-educated.

Some argue that these changes are benign. Many children who in the past would have had two married parents could have two cohabiting parents instead. Why should the lack of a legal or religious tie affect anyone’s well-being?

There are three reasons to be concerned about this dramatic shift in family life.".......

5 posted on 05/27/2012 5:42:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms.

Of course he was right and still is. He is remembered for that statement and held in derision for it, by leftists everywhere. That and the fact that he misspelled "potato".

Compare a simple misspelling, to Biden and his utter ignorance about anything and everything and yet Biden is held in high esteem by the left as a, "great statesman. Sickening isn't it?

15 posted on 05/27/2012 5:57:16 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Obama versus Romney? Cyanide versus arsenic.)
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