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06.19.2009 4:33 pm

The importance of dad

Special to the Post-Dispatch
Good Dads Are Priceless dadsadventure.com

Good Dads Are Priceless dadsadventure.com

Cathy Young, RealClearPolitics, wrote in May of America’s shift toward single motherhood:

…..In 2007, nearly 40 percent of all babies born in the United States were born to single women, up from 34 percent in 2002. Some sociologists believe we have reached a tipping point: the link between marriage and parenthood is no longer the norm. Why is this happening, and what does it mean for women, children, and men?

Tom McFeely, who wrote Children Pay the Price for National Catholic Register online, quoted Helen Alvare:

For Catholics, the possible “normalizing” of out of wedlock childbearing is of particular concern, not only because of the diminished well-being of vulnerable children, but also because it calls into question the very necessity, the very centrality of the male-female relationship, for the lives of individuals and society. If, as we believe, the relationship between Christ and the Church is glimpsed in a special…

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