Wedding Ring

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The Ring Thing

We must have marriage.

 

By W. Bradford Wilcox

 

 

This Sunday, neighbors, husbands, and especially children should lift a glass to the mothers who have managed to get and stay married to the fathers of their children. For, despite the fact that single motherhood never seems to go out of style with the media, motherhood typically works best — for our nation’s neighborhoods, children, and even most moms — with a wedding ring .

 

You will not read any of this in the New York Times, which seems to think sperm-donor-dads are just fine, but married mothers serve our nation’s neighborhoods, children, and even themselves better than any of the dizzying array of alternatives to married motherhood. This truth was abundantly clear to me after surveying the social-scientific literature on marriage and child well-being with 15 other family scholars for a recent report, Why Marriage Matters: Twenty-Six Conclusions from the Social Sciences.

Article: The Ring Thing

 

 

Now, if you're one of those lucky ones whose parents are still alive and together, you need to buy them rings and say thanks for staying together despite the difficulties. Thanks for staying together because of us, your loved ones.