American promiscuity increases, fidelity, integrity and moral fortitude declines According to The State of Our Unions 2005, a report issued by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, 8.1% of coupled households consist of unmarried heterosexual partners. The same study said that only 63% of American children grow up with both biological parents -- the lowest figure in the Western world. As of 2003, 43.7% of custodial mothers and 56.2% of custodial fathers were either separated or divorced. And in 2002, 7.8 million Americans paid about $40 billion in child and/or spousal support (84% of the payers were male).
The traditional family is under attack.
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