Whodathunkit!

19 Responses to Whodathunkit!

1. Andrei says:

   November 16, 2011 at 06:57

   But you know that this is not fair to children of solo mothers, gays etc and to level the playing field its best for all to destroy marriage through means both fair and foul.
   • KG says:

     November 16, 2011 at 07:02

     Yep. The usual suspects will scream and whine. But the evidence is irrefutable, and not just from this little study.
2. Katie says:

   November 16, 2011 at 09:08

   Plus you know with whom you will be sleeping with every night.

   
   • mawm says:

     November 16, 2011 at 19:26

     That can be pretty good as well.
     • KG says:

       November 16, 2011 at 19:30

       yes indeed!
3. James Stephenson says:

   November 16, 2011 at 09:32

   I have a hunch that children of married couples are more mentally developed, because of all the practice they get playing Mum off against Dad, for their own benefit…or is that just my boys?
4. KG says:

   November 16, 2011 at 09:37

   nope!
5. Darin says:

   November 16, 2011 at 10:22

   File this under the “No Shit Sherlock” heading.
6. mort says:

   November 16, 2011 at 11:42

   the family unit is the enemy for the leftist.. the likelihood of a child needing to be placed into a state sponsored indoctrination centre because the parent is off earning an income is so much more when there is only 1 parent around. Can’t have 2 parent households, where 1 parent is a stay at home full-time….. that’s oppression
7. pinkofreezone says:

   November 16, 2011 at 13:21

   I’m getting married in a few months, looking forward to it – and giving my future offspring the best chance to grow up well balanced, liberty loving, gun carrying, capitalists.

   Advantages of Marriage:

   1. Better father/children relationships
   2. Children born outset of wedlock have higher rates of divorce and be unwed when having children
   3. Marriage is a universal cultural institution
   4. Divorce and unmarried childbearing increase the rate of poverty of both woman and children
   5. Married couples are wealthy than singles or cohabiting couples
   6. Married men earn more than single men with similar skills
   7. The children of divorced, cohabiting or single parents do worse at school
   8. Parental divorce reduces the likelihood children graduate from university
   9. Children who live with two married parents have better health than any other children
   10. Parental marriage is associated with a sharply lower risk of infant mortality
   11. Married parents have lower rates of alcohol and drug abuse than average and so do their teens
   12. Married people, especially men, live longer than similar singles
   13. Cohabitation is not marriage in a legal sense
   14. Married people have lower rates of injury, illness and disability
   15. Children with divorced parents have higher rates of mental illness
   16. Divorce increases the risk of suicide
   17. Married mothers have lower rates of depression than single or cohabiting mothers
   18. Boys raised in single parent families engage in delinquent and criminal behaviour at higher rates
   19. Married people commit fewer crimes, and are the victims of fewer crimes
   20. Married women are subjected to lower rates of domestic violence than cohabiting or dating woman
   21. A child not living with their own two married parents is at greater risk of child abuse

   Add the studies showing the benefits of weekly worship and those countless studies showing the benefits (and moral benefits) of economic liberalisation and I think the Married Conservative is on very solid ground defending his/her beliefs.
   • Richard says:

     November 16, 2011 at 14:32

     I suspect you will be passing on superior genes as well – may you and your spouse be blessed with healthy children.
     • KG says:

       November 16, 2011 at 14:55

       I’ll second that. May you have a long and happy marriage, PFZ.
   • mawm says:

     November 16, 2011 at 19:29

     Hey, it is not quite as simple as that……….you really have to work hard at it to make/keep it good.
     • KG says:

       November 16, 2011 at 19:32

       so true….
     • pinkofreezone says:

       November 17, 2011 at 05:01

       Very true, my fiancee and I are doing pre-marriage counselling at our Church, really wakes you up to the effort required and the size of the commitment being made.

       Thank you all for your good wishes.
   • WAKE UP says:

     November 17, 2011 at 06:17

     Sounds like a piece of cake, Pinko, good on ya (I speak as the father of six boys )
8. Cadwallader says:

   November 16, 2011 at 16:25

   Mort is absolutely right. The environment within a family is beyond the grasp of the collectivist state where lefties hunger to control everything. NB the prohibition on disciplining your children. Anything out of the reach of the state is (to the leftie) an enemy of the left.
9. jonno1 says:

   November 17, 2011 at 08:49

   Best wishes PFZ. After 42 years of marriage to my first (& only) wife, with three married children & eight well-adjusted & happy grand-children, I think I can attest to the truth of your statements. And yes, it involves deep commitment, but that’s not difficult when you still experience a little tingle when your wife enters the room (sorry if that sounds a bit mushy…). Oh, BTW, there will be a few hiccups & arguments along the way, but they’ll pass. Just remember the two magic words: “Yes dear”.
   • KG says:

     November 17, 2011 at 09:42

     “..but that’s not difficult when you still experience a little tingle when your wife enters the room ”
     you too, eh?