Ann Coulter writes the following, and its classic Ann:
Many of these studies, for example, are from the '90s, when the percentage of teenagers raised by single parents was lower than it is today. In 1990, 28 percent of children under 18 were being raised in one-parent homes -- mother or father, divorced or never-married. By 2005, more than one-third of all babies born in the U.S. were illegitimate.

That's a lot of social problems in the pipeline.

Think I'm being cruel? Imagine an America with 60 to 70 percent fewer juvenile delinquents, teenage births, teenage suicides and runaways, and you will appreciate what the sainted "single mothers" have accomplished.

Even in liberals' fevered nightmares, predatory mortgage dealers, oil speculators and Ken Lay could never do as much harm to their fellow human beings as single mothers do to their own children, to say nothing of society at large.


Me again: The studies do support a set of two parents. Fatherhood is important. But when Ann writes that we would have 60-70% fewer juvenile crimes, she reaches too far and makes way too many conclusions. Correlation isn't synonymous with causation. In fact, the juvenile crime rate has gone considerably over the forty years or so, the exact time frame that single motherhood became socially acceptable. A whole bunch of things (some good, some not so good) have become more socially acceptable since 1968. Here are a few good ones:

Interracial couples.
Anti-lynching laws.
Acceptance of AIDS as an epidemic, as opposed to God's plague for gays.
Federally instituted integration programs in public schools.
OSHA.

Here's a bad one, one that I'm betting I could find more correlation to juvenile crime for as well:

The Drug War.

See what I mean?
Ann loves to take the one true thing (studies supporting two parents) and extrapolate it into her own agenda. Its very sad.