From the Heritage Foundation comes news of the most effective poverty-fighting tool in society’s arsenal: marriage.
According to the U.S Census, the poverty rate in 2008 for single parents with children was 35.6 percent. The rate for married couples with children was 6.4 percent. Being raised in a married family reduces a child’s probability of living in poverty by about 80 percent.
True, some of this difference in poverty is due to the fact that single parents tend to have less education than married couples. But even when married couples are compared to single parents with the same education level, the married poverty rate will still be about 70 percent lower.
Marriage is a powerful weapon in fighting poverty. In fact, being married has the same effect in reducing poverty as adding five to six years to a parent’s education level
It’s time to acknowledge that decades of out-of-wedlock births and the devaluing of fathers by radical feminists as nothing more than donors of genetic material have hurt children badly.