Marriage isn’t just an ‘option’ – it’s the gold standard for family life

Feb 7, 2019 by

by Will Jones, The Conservative Woman:

FAMILY life is more richly varied than ever before, says the BBC. There it is – the not-so-subtle dogma of the progressive creed. Diversity is always good – never dysfunction, always rich variety. And who could object to rich variety? Like a box of Quality Street, each brightly wrapped modern family arrangement as sweet as any other.

How awkward, then, to have to report that not all family set-ups are quite as pleasant and beneficial for children. According to the BBC’s Branwen Jeffreys, two large studies, one in the US and one in the UK, are ‘beginning to provide some evidence suggesting there is a measurable difference in how well children fare on average in single-parent families’. Well, who knew? It is certainly good that the BBC is reporting this highly non-PC finding – but it is hardly news, at least not to anyone who hasn’t swallowed the dominant Leftist ideology whole. The poorer average outcomes for children who lack fathers, in particular, is so well established, and the facts so widely communicated, that it is incredible some people are still ignorant of it. It’s almost as though they don’t want to hear inconvenient facts, or risk them getting out into the general population.

A key finding in the US study is that children whose parents are not married or where one is absent are ‘twice as likely not to graduate from high school’. The academic overseeing the project, Professor Sara McLanahan, explains: ‘Having two adults who co-operate to raise the child, who give time and money, means there are just more resources than one doing it.’ Indeed. But didn’t humanity discover this a few thousand years ago? Isn’t it why marriage became ubiquitous in human culture? To ensure the shared responsibility for and commitment of both mother and father to their children. And this is not even to mention the crucial role fathers play in children’s emotional development.

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