Friday’s Boston Globe carried an

Friday’s Boston Globe carried an AP story reporting the striking results of a study of children in single-parent families that was published in the medical journal Lancet: “Single-parent homes studied.” (Courtesy of No Left Turns.) The study tracked a million children for 10 years, into their mid-20’s.

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