“What Makes a Healthy Family”

What Makes a Healthy Family is a new article at the Pacific Standard that goes along with my previous post, Single Parents Aren’t The Problem.

Here’s an excerpt:

Lamb explains that, despite their high rates of poverty, “the majority of children raised in single-parent or divorced families are well-adjusted,” even if outcomes are slightly more negative overall than for kids raised in “traditional” families. It’s an open question whether it’s the money or the family structure itself holding back that minority of children of single parents that turn out maladjusted.

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