October 12, 2014By Jon Greenberg
...Tony Perkins, (click here) president of the Family Research Council, a leading group in the fight against gay marriage, said children’s welfare is central to the council’s position.
"We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad," Perkins said Oct. 12 on Fox News Sunday.
We have examined this sort of claim before. The independent research fails to back up Perkins’ view.
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The Family Research Council has a Web page with 10 arguments from social science against same-sex marriage. We went through the list to see which spoke to the welfare of children, and of those points, which were based on studies that compared children in same-sex and opposite-sex households....
...According to Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2009, a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau every two years (and most recently in December 2011), there are approximately 13.7 million single parents in the United States today, and those parents are responsible for raising 22 million children. This number represents approximately 26% of children under 21 in the U.S. today.
Despite negative assumptions that most single moms "selfishly" chose to raise their kids solo, the majority of individuals raising children alone started out in committed relationships and never expected to be single parents. Here's a picture of the "typical" single parent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau:...
