Prop. 8 - Married Mother/father Child Rearing is the Optimal Child-rearing Mode

Voters and politicians can understand that the outcomes and goods that flow from a good setting for child rearing establish the mother/father mode of child rearing as the best and most favorable now known.

For further data, turn to these books:

• Amato & Booth, A Generation at Risk (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1997)
• Mayer, What Money Can't Buy (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1997)
• Poponoe, Life Without Father (New York; The Free Press. 1997)
• Blakenhorn, Fatherless America (New York: Basic Books 1995)
• Gallagher & Waite, The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better off Financially (New York: Doubleday 2000).

These favorable outcomes include academic performance and levels of attainment; physical, mental, and emotional health and development; and avoidance of crime and other forms of self- and other-destructive behavior such as drug abuse and high-risk sexual conduct, according to Monte Stewart in the Canadian Journal of Family Law (Vol. 21, 2004)

Do not be deceived about opposition to Proposition 8 in California. This is not about equality, but is about a redefinition of marriage that will have severe long-term affects on how we define this institution. Once this new definition has the sanction of law, the traditional institution will be deconstructed and significantly changed.

Go to http://www.manwomanmarriage.org/ for more information.