New Study: Just One Percent of British People are Gay or Lesbian
According to an Agence France-Presse story more than 480,000 people in the UK identify themselves as gay or lesbian in a recent Office for National Statistics study, and a further 245,000 say they are...
View ArticleMarriage Reduces Crime
A clever researcher, S. Alexandra Burt at Michigan State followed a set of identical twins and fraternal twins as they stayed single or married, and discovered marriage reduces anti-social behavior...
View ArticleHave We Separated Sex from Reproduction?
Many advocates have said that, with the advent of contraception, gay and straight sex are just the same. (Actually a lot of orthodox Catholics make this claim too). The Ruth Institute posted an October...
View ArticleNYT's most-emailed article: Social Scientist Sees Bias Within
From the NYT: Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting. Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and...
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Insights into Age of Marriage and Divorce Rates in the Church
From FOF's Family Insight: 1) Age of Marriage - There's lots of debate about what the best age for men and women to marry. What ages at marriage increase and decrease marital happiness and stability?...
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Dr. Pat Fagan's 2011 Family Trends Report
Dr. Patrick Fagan and the Marriage and Religion Research Institute have released their 2011 report which tracks the behaviors of the American Family in the five major institutions of society (family,...
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Gallup Poll: Proportion of Americans Who Believe People are "Born Gay"...
Public opinion on whether or not people are "born gay" remains largely unchanged since 2001, Gallup reports: Forty-two percent say being gay or lesbian is "due to factors such as upbringing and...
View ArticleWhy The Massachusetts Divorce Rate is Low: Few Get Married
CitizenLink reports: For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Center for Health Statistics has released a detailed, state-by-state look at marriage rates nationwide. ... The...
View ArticleOfficials Admit U.S. Census Inflated Figures for Same-Sex Households by Over...
The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. Census Bureau, in their initial reports, vastly overestimated the number of same-sex households in the United States: The 2010 census overestimated the...
View ArticleCensus Shows Same-Sex Households Only Increased by 5,000 a Year Since 2000
Digging into the data behind the headlines of the recently revised-downward U.S. census figures on same-sex households reveal that they increased only a minuscule amount over the past 10 years: The...
View ArticleReport: Gay Groups in Scotland Received 10x More Funding Than Church Groups
The UK Christian Institute: Homosexual groups in Scotland have received nearly ten times as much Government funding as church groups over the past decade. New figures reveal that since 2001-2, three...
View ArticleAtlantic Blogger: "Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are"
Garance Franke-Ruta blogs for The Atlantic: "...In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or...
View ArticleAustralia's 2011 Census: Gay Couples Less than Half of One Percent
PinkNews UK: Data from Australia’s 2011 census have been released today and show 33,714 gay couples, 1,338 of whom are married. The number of same-sex relationships is equivalent to 0.48 per cent of...
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Canada Admits They Overestimated Number of Same-Sex Married Couples
LifeSiteNews: Statistics Canada has admitted that “there may be an overestimation” in the number of same-sex ‘married’ couples from the 2011 census, after the government agency mistakenly counted some...
View ArticleHow Many Scientific Truths Must Be Unsayable?
Dan Rafter at the HRC blog takes issue with Maggie Gallagher quoting a study in the October issue of Journal of Marriage and Family which found that married opposite-sex couples in Britain are five...
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Latest Statistics on Illegitimate Births Still Show Rate Over 40%
Roger Clegg at The Corner: Yesterday the federal government released its latest figures on births in the United States, including out-of-wedlock births. The numbers are very close to last year’s: 72.3...
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By The Numbers: Marriage Outperformed Romney in All 4 States
We've mentioned before that marriage fared better than the top of the GOP ticket in all four states that put the question to the people, here are the most recent figures: Marriage vote:...
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Gallup: Highest Percentage of LGBTs Live in Washington D.C.
Is the LGBT movement "politically powerless"? The nation's capital -- home to politically powerful people -- has by far the highest percentage of people who identify as gay or lesbian, according to...
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Marriage Reduces Likelihood of Child Poverty by 82 Percent
Heritage’s blog, The Foundry, recently shared an illuminating chart (see below) that demonstrates the connection between child poverty and being raised in single-mother households. Today, one out of...
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