While studies have long shown the negative effects on children of divorce compared to those from two-parent households, a new study has determined that children born to to cohabiting couples fare even worse than children from divorced families.
Despite a drop in the divorce rate, “family instability continues to increase for the nation’s children overall, mainly because more than 40 percent of American children will now spend time in a cohabiting household,” according to the study, “Why Marriage Matters,” issued Aug. 16 by the Center for American Families at the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project, based at the University of Virginia.
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Mark Pattison is a news person at the Catholic News Service and is President at Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild
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