All in the Family

By John Leo Sun Sep 25, 8:10 PM ET

Two decades of research produced a consensus among social scientists of both left and right that family structure has a serious impact on children, even when controlling for income, race and other variables. In other words, we are talking about not a problem of race but about a problem of family formation or, rather, the lack of it. The best outcomes for children -- whether in academic performance, avoidance of crime and drugs, or financial and economic success -- are almost invariably produced by married biological parents. The worst results are by never-married women.

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