Christian Family Services Ministry

1-16-2017 – A Word to the Wise: Whether it is because of disease, loss of a parent, or other effects we will discuss, these children all seem to be dramatically affected by the immorality of their parents. Sara McLanahan, a researcher in the area of single-parent families, makes a statement that I feel focuses on the issue at hand. She states: We reject the claim that children raised by only one parent do just as well as children raised by both parents. We have been studying this question fourteen years, and in our opinion the evidence is quite clear: Children who grow up in a household with only one biological parent are worse off, on average that children who grow up in a household with both of their biological parents, regardless of the parents’ race, educational background, regardless of whether the parents are married when the child is born, and regardless of whether the resident parent remarries.