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Title: Encouraging Marriage and Discouraging Divorce
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Fagan, Thomas |
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Encouraging Marriage and Discouraging Divorce Backgrounder #1421 Report, The Heritage Foundation, March 26, 2001. Also: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/BG1421.cfm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Children; Crime; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Influence; Marriage; Parents, Single Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper argues that marriage is more successful than government programs in preventing and treating social ills and that children in married families are "healthier, perform better in school, and are involved less frequently in crime or other destructive behavior." The criminality argument is evidenced by Harper and McLanahan's study of NLSY79 data which found that children who grew up without their biological father in the home were roughly three times more likely to commit a crime that led to incarceration than were children from intact families. |
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Fagan, Thomas. "Encouraging Marriage and Discouraging Divorce." Backgrounder #1421 Report, The Heritage Foundation, March 26, 2001. |