“In his groundbreaking book Coming Apart, the sociologist Charles Murray notes that young people, on average, do best when raised by their married, natural parents. "I know of no other set of important findings," he writes, "that are as broadly accepted by social scientists ... and yet are so resolutely ignored by network news programs, editorial writers for the major newspapers, and politicians of both major political parties."(17)
-Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World
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(17) Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (New York: Crown Forum, 2012), 158.















