But it’s not enough for children to have two parents—whoever those parents may be. The family diversity myth which posits kids do just as well being raised by any loving adults, is wrong. As Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at University of Virginia and fellow at the Institute for Family Studies told me on my podcast, “When you actually look at the data, what you see is that kids are much more likely to be flourishing when they’re raised in an intact, biological married family with their own mother and father.” In fact, a study by the Department of Health and Human Services found that
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