There are four steps you can take in a specific order to reduce the chances your family will ever live in poverty. They are:
If you do those four things in that order, the chances you and your children will live in poverty are reduced by 82%. If you go on to graduate from college, the chances drop even more drastically.
The following is by Family Council staff member Deborah Beuerman.
At 12:01am October 21, several same-sex couples in New Jersey were “married” after the state Supreme Court rejected Gov. Chris Christie’s request to delay until after his appeal of an earlier lower court ruling could be heard.
In September, a state court judge ruled that, in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling mandating that the federal government recognize same-sex “marriages,” New Jersey must allow them. Gov. Christie appealed that decision and asked for a stay on it.
Gov. Christie has said that voters at the ballot box, not a court or legislators, should decide the issue. But Gov. Christie dropped his legal challenge to a same-gender law on October 21.
U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is often quoted as saying, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
With that in mind, a lot of people are pushing the idea these days that moms and dads do not matter in the lives of children–that all that matters is having a “loving family” or even just simply “love” in your life. But do the facts support this opinion?
Here are the facts: