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| | Marriages Made in Political Heaven: Families, Values, and the Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Encouraging unmarried biological parents to marry, forming a married biological family, will have some benefits, although the well-being of children in these promoted marriages on average will not begin to approach the well-being of children in existing married parent families, mainly because the characteristics of the parents are so different. |
 | | All of these states have somewhat more conservative views around marriage and family, and in fact 5 of those 10 are the states where households of all types are most likely raising children, and actually three of the top five are in the top five for that statistic. |
 | | In terms of political currency, however, 53 percent of the people surveyed gave this an 8, 9, or 10 on a scale of 1 to 1010 being the highestin terms of how important it's going to be when they vote this fall. |
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