More say death penalty, embryonic stem cell research, and out-of-wedlock births are OK

Statement of Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow, Domestic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation: My name is Robert Rector.I am a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own, and should not be construed as representing any official position of The Heritage Foundation.

THE MARRYING KIND:” WHICH MEN MARRY AND WHY

• Among all men surveyed, those from traditional, religiously observant family backgrounds are more likely to be married, to seek marriage and to have positive views of marriage, women, and children than young males from nontraditional and nonreligiously observant family backgrounds.
• Slightly more than two out of ten expressed strongly negative views about their own personal desire to marry as well as more negative attitudes toward marriage, women, and children.
• Compared to other unmarried men in the survey sample, they are significantly more likely to come from nontraditional and nonreligiously observant families.
• A large majority (81 percent) of married men agree with the statement that “you decided to marry because it was the right time in your life to settle down.”
              
  
• Download full report,  "The State of our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America." The National Marriage Project, Rutgers University, 2004
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