Marriage, Happiness, and a Prayer of a Chance at Escaping Poverty

Collette Caprara / September 16, 2010

With the recently released numbers regarding poverty levels in America, public concern is heightened, in particular, regarding the plight of America’s impoverished children.

This concern should generate a focus on what might empower them to rise up from poverty—and, in turn, what factors promote stable marriages. Research clearly indicates that one of the most important factors in a child’s welfare is whether she is born to married parents. Children raised by single parents are seven times more likely to live in poverty than peers in families with two married parents.

At a time when unwed childbearing is at an all-time high, there is a ray of hope. (more…)