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AMERICAN TRAGEDY: 54% OF TEENS LACK CRUCIAL INGREDIENT
'Having effects socially, culturally and health-wise for too many'
Greg Corombos
More than half of American teenagers do not live with married parents, and the family will be destroyed in this country if the U.S. doesn’t start championing marriage and stop rewarding people for having children out of wedlock, according to a new report from the Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute.
“The Fifth Annual Index of Family Belonging and Rejection” shows just 46 percent of American teens between the ages of 15 and 17 have grown up with their biological parents always married. For black adolescents, the statistics are far worse.
“This index is particularly acute at a chronic level in the African-American community, where only 17 percent of black teenagers, compared to 54 percent of white teenagers, are being raised in intact families, and this marks a 21 percent decrease in family belongingness for black teenagers since 1950,” said Ken Blackwell, senior fellow in family empowerment at the Family Research Council.
Blackwell said these worsening numbers carry a whole raft of negative consequences with them.
“It means that we are a nation at risk because there are so many positive benefits of children being nurtured and raised in intact families that too many of our people are missing,” Blackwell said. “It’s having effects socially, culturally and health-wise for too many of our youngsters. And it has an effect on criminality.”
He said this societal breakdown has happened before.
“We are going to be suffering from the same sort of family breakdown that we find in totalitarian, authoritarian and real major welfare states,” Blackwell said.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/american-tragedy-54-of-teens-lack-crucial-ingredient/#h7dcraWXzS4FYyAr.99My comments: This is why God HATES DIVORCE! (Malachi 2:16) America's REJECTION of God and His Word brings the CURSE of Deuteronomy 28.
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