spot on.
(emphasis mine)
I haven't written a lot of books. I've written one. And it was in response to a book written by Hillary Clinton called It Takes A Village. I didn't agree with that. I believe it takes a family. And that's what I wrote. And I believe that there's one thing that is undermining this country and that is the break down of the American family. It's undermining our economy. You see-- the rates of poverty among single parent families, which are-- moms are doing heroic things, but it's harder.
It's five times higher, in the single parent family. We-- we know there's certain things that work in America. Brookings Institute came out with a study just a few year-- a couple of years ago that said if you graduate from high school and if you work and if you're a man, if you marry, if you're a woman if you marry before you have children, you have a 2% chance of being in poverty in America.
And to be above the median income, if you do those three things, 77% chance of being above the median income. Why isn't the president of the United States or why aren't leaders in this country talking about that and trying to formulate, not necessarily federal government policy, but local policy and state policy and community policy to help people do those things that we know work and we know are good for society? This president doesn't. In fact he has required programs not to talk about marriage, not to talk about abstinence if-- in order to get federal funds. source
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