“The overwhelming record of the biological, behavioral, and social sciences is clear: the best setting for healthy, happy, and enriching human lives is that of a family in which children are born into and live with their two biological parents who are married. Any chosen deviation from this model—cohabitation, divorce, out-of-wedlock births, remarriage, same-sex unions—raises the probability of negative outcomes—for adults as well as children.
“Many Americans do not like to hear such things. They want to believe that personal choices bear no public consequences.
“Members of natural families are the persons least likely to become long-term dependents on government largesse. They are more likely to aspire to, and gain, a valued economic autonomy and to comprise productive, working, taxpaying citizens. When they own their homes and other property as a form of security, they are equipped to be independent citizens of a democratic republic.
“Accordingly, political leaders truly committed to building and sustaining a flourishing free society will do whatever they can to maximize the number of children born into and growing up within such families, among all races and creeds. Conversely, politicians who ignore or reject these social and political truths engage in a statistically framed kind of child abuse.” – Allan C. Carlson, John Howard Distinguished Senior Fellow at the International Organization for the Family.
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