From Christian Post.
Excerpt:
Children who are not raised by both of their biological mother and father are more likely to have experienced traumatic events, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Children in foster care had, by far, the worst outcomes. Those raised by one biological family member and those living with relatives fell between those with two biological parents and no biological parents. Adopted children were not included in the sample.
The study looked at nine adverse experiences: 1) divorce or separation of parents or guardians, 2) death of a parent or guardian, 3) incarceration of a parent or guardian, 4) lived with someone who was mentally ill, suicidal or severely depressed, 5) lived with someone who had an alcohol or drug problem, 6) witnessed violence in the household, 7) was the victim of violence or witnessed violence in the neighborhood, 8) suffered racial discrimination, and 9) caregiver had often found it hard to get by on the family’s income.
Seventy percent of children raised by their biological mother and father had no adverse family experiences compared to only 21.7 percent of those raised by one biological parent and 18.7 percent of those raised by no biological parents.
[…]The data comes from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children’s Health, a nationally representative phone survey of households with children. 95,677 interviews were conducted for the survey.
There seems to be a conflict in our society now between the traditionalists, who favor chastity, courtship and natural marriage, and the “anything goes” secular relativists. The secular relativists seem to be winning, but at what cost? The data seems to be pretty clear – when you lift moral restrictions on the sexual behaviors of adults, then children suffer. We should be more articulate in saying how children are affected whenever these discussions come up.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Reblogged this on Blogger at the Edge of the Universe. and commented:
No surprise there.
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While I agree with you on the moral principals, correlation does not indicate causation, particularly in this study. The first three adverse items are tautologies, they are traumatic events that also caused the child to be raised by one parent or by others. Adverse events four through six could be tautological as all three provide moral, if not legal, grounds for divorce or removal of the child from their parent(s). I am unsure how adverse event eight could be tied to single parenting or other guardianship arrangements. That leaves only adverse events seven and nine as possibly having any bearing on traditional family arrangements as these are probably related to poverty and the evidence is clear that single parenting is closely correlated with poverty (as well as adverse outcomes for children from single-parent households).
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Being facetious here, “who cares about kids. I want what I want and who are you to tell me who or what I can rub my sexual organs up against, risking my life due to the inherently dangerous physically, emotionally, and spiritually aspects of my choice of lifestyle. As long as I get some curtain climber, tricycle motor, or rug rat that may eventually cause irreparable damage to their psyche, who cares.”
Does that sound about right?
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Yes. Kids don’t get to vote, especially unborn ones.
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Which is sad…no, heart-rending.
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I do wish adopted children had been included in this study not only to get some information, but also because I’ve been running across anti-adoption screeds of late (many of which suggest a child is better with an older and/or single relative than a “stranger).
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Oh amen to this! You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to find the common sense in this bit of research. It should be noted repeatedly that kids who do the very worst are always those being raised by the state. Bureaucracy doesn’t even pretend to care.
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Jen,
There has been positive research with adopted children, especially if adopted by good parents.
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