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The Effects of Divorce on America
By Patrick F. Fagan and Robert Rector
(Courtesy of Heritage Foundation, (c) 2000)
(Used with Permission)

American society may have erased the stigma that once accompanied divorce, but it can no longer ignore its massive effects. As social scientists track successive generations of American children whose parents have ended their marriages, the data are leading even some of the once-staunchest supporters of divorce to conclude that divorce is hurting American society and devastating the lives of children. more.....

Suggested Reading:

Fatherless America, divorce statisticsFatherless America : Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem by David Blankenhorn 
ISBN 006092683X

David Blankenhorn writes that on economic grounds alone, divorce is a phenomenonal social disaster. But more importantly, because of the unique gender role and "package" that a father brings to the family, his presence cannot be replaced by any single mother, no matter how heroic her attempt. His assessment that current day fatherhood is lacking is both honest and realistic but he makes the case for the dire need of the "Good Family Man".

From Focus on the Family:
Only a Piece of Paper? by Glenn T. Stanton

 

 

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