the parents weren't married.
Danny thinks these are an advertisement for homosexual parenting but in fact they point out how devastating out-of-wedlock childrearing is.
it's not about homosexual marriage, Danny.
it's about how bad for society fornication/adultery is.

please make a note of it.

also many of these feature folks who are obviously mentally ill but that doesn't deter Danny from his fun.....

18

thank you

@27: Don't be stupid, yourself. Intelligence isn't the most important thing for natural selection, it's adaptability to a particular niche, which may just be fucking when one isn't responsible enough. Even a baby badly raised is still another person who's most likely going to make it to breeding age.

27

Abortion is Darwinism

18

insane?

perhapsssss......

or, just maybe, the only sane person in the room.

go back through a year's worth of "Every Child..."

see how many of the parents had ever been married.

(spoiler alert- its less than 6%....)

the common thread is not heterosexuality.

it is illegitimacy.

Every Child Deserves a Mother and Father Who Are Married (to each other...)

Married and Unmarried Parents
A Research Summary

David Popenoe, PhD
Professor of Sociology
Rutgers University

The idea is spreading that, if a child has two parents, it makes no difference whether or not those parents are married. Parents are parents, the argument goes, regardless of the possession by some of what is referred to as "just a piece of paper"--the marriage license. But this idea is far from the truth. In general, the relationship of married parents differs significantly from that of unmarried cohabiting parents, and the difference has substantial consequences both for the couple and for their children.

It has been found that the two groups have quite different preferences and expectations. Compared to the marrieds, the unmarrieds have:

A lower level of commitment to each other, and less reluctance to consider a possible breakup
A shorter time horizon in their life planning
Less merging of their financial, social, emotional, and work lives
Less sexual exclusivity
Associated with this difference, according to numerous studies, are the following facts. The unmarrieds:

Are 50% more likely to break up
Have much higher rates of spousal abuse
Live at a lower economic level
Have lower levels of happiness (both men and women), and derive fewer physical and mental health benefits from the relationship
Receive less help from their extended families
Have worse sex lives
The consequences of these circumstances for children are remarkable. The children of unmarried parents:

Have fewer economic resources
Receive less parenting from their fathers
Face a much greater risk of parental break-up, leading to two to three times the risk of having serious social problems when they become adolescents and young adults, such as juveniles delinquency and teenage out-of-wedlock childbearing
If the father is biologically unrelated to the child, which is much more often the case in unmarried families, the child is no better off than living with a single mother. And, compared to a child living with two natural parents, the child is much more in danger of being seriously abused both sexually and physically.

It is estimated that almost half of children growing up today will spend some time living with an unmarried, cohabiting couple. This should be considered a national tragedy. For our nation's children, one of the worst things that could befall them would be a continuation of the current shift away from marriage.

It has been found that the two groups have quite different preferences and expectations.

Compared to the marrieds, the unmarrieds have:

>A lower level of commitment to each other, and less reluctance to consider a possible breakup
>A shorter time horizon in their life planning
Less merging of their financial, social, emotional, and work lives
>Less sexual exclusivity

Associated with this difference, according to numerous studies, are the following facts.

The unmarrieds:

>Are 50% more likely to break up
>Have much higher rates of spousal abuse
>Live at a lower economic level
>Have lower levels of happiness (both men and women), and derive fewer physical and mental health benefits from the relationship
>Receive less help from their extended families
>Have worse sex lives

The consequences of these circumstances for children are remarkable.

The children of unmarried parents:

>Have fewer economic resources
>Receive less parenting from their fathers
>Face a much greater risk of parental break-up, leading to two to three times the risk of having serious social problems when they become adolescents and young adults, such as juveniles delinquency and teenage out-of-wedlock childbearing

If the father is biologically unrelated to the child, which is much more often the case in unmarried families, the child is no better off than living with a single mother. And, compared to a child living with two natural parents, the child is much more in danger of being seriously abused both sexually and physically.

It is estimated that almost half of children growing up today will spend some time living with an unmarried, cohabiting couple. This should be considered a national tragedy. For our nation's children, one of the worst things that could befall them would be a continuation of the current shift away from marriage.