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social scientists have gathered masses of evidence that confirm what was once con- sidered common sense about families, writes Barbara Defoe Whitehead in the Atlantic (April1993):Children in single-parent families

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are more likely to be poor, to have emotional or behavioral problems, to drop out of high school, to become pregnant as teenagers, to abuse drugs, to get in trouble with the law, and to be victims of physical or sexual abuse.
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