These are but two of many, which can be viewed online at stateofourunions.org, along with an urgent plea that President Obama include some of these thoughts in his own State of the Union next month. It insults no one to encourage couples to marry before having children, thus making a public as well as private commitment to love and care for them.
Perhaps most important, to ignore the marriage deficit among America's middle class is essentially to be complicit in perpetuating a society of winners and losers. Those born to married, well-educated parents are more likely to prosper, while those born to fragmented families are more likely to repeat the patterns of their parents.
Therein is a national tragedy worthy of our attention.
Kathleen Parker's email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.
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I'll get married as soon as you social conservatives stop passing laws telling me that I can't.
"It is unfortunate that there are these negative commenters who only see their very narrow view of life"
How is it a narrow view? You cannot on the one hand continue to print articles every week extolling the virtues of marriages and its More..
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You can, of course, get married any time you want...it's a free country. What you cannot do, however, is force your fellow citizens through their government to endorse a particular type of sexual relationship - homosexuality"
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