(04-13-2015 01:47 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  It isn't me just making claims, it is according to Census Bureau researchers Lindsay M. Monte and Renee R. Ellis. It is well documented, but this is a message board and I have a full time job. If you are looking for a thesis paper full of citations, you aren't going to get it. If you don't believe the research, that is your perogative, but it is there. If you truly don't believe children are statistically raised better in a traditional family, I am baffled.

I'm not looking for a thesis paper or a list of citations, I'm asking for a single metric you'd consider indicative of the effect this moral decline is having on our society. It's simple, you claim that having more single parents leads to negative effects on our children, and society in general. That's fine, and I'm not arguing the rate of single parents, I'm simply asking for a description of the sort of negative effects this admitted decline in married parents would present on society as a whole. Not only are the most common metrics for raising societal and moral standing of a society not trending the way this article claims, they're trending in an opposite direction. This fact should make you question the conclusion this article is presenting.

So, please, tell me where I should start looking to see this 25 year phenomena exist?