Romney or Obama and why

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Rath said:

You're demonstrating correlation, not causation. The fact is people in poverty, involved in crime and generally on the wrong end of social demographics are more likely to be single parents. It's not the fact that they're single parents that are causing the kids to turn out bad, it's all the other factors that are causing them to become single parents

Even when you control for the socioeconomic status prior to having children, children of single mothers tend to be poorer and worse off based on most metrics. The reason for this is not controversial, it takes a lot of time and money to raise healthy well-adjusted children and single parents are at a huge disadvantage on both counts compared to a married couple. This doesn't mean that the children are doomed to failure, but it does mean that they're at a significant disadvantage.