What Does Data Reveal About the Geography of Marriage?

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A recent wave of data offers new insights into the geography of marriage and about the institution itself. Ray Suarez talks to analysts (Transcript):
- David Blankenhorn, founder of the Institute for American Values
- Elaine Tyler May, professor of American studies and history at the University of Minnesota

Blankenhorn in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case that successfully overturned the California ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage. In 1995, he also published the book Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem; here's a 1995 profile of him byt he San Francisco Examiner, "What's the problem in society? Dad's missing."

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1. Interesting

A very cordial discussion without a lot of emotionalist or phobic baggage. Maybe nuts like Blankenhorn are reading the writing on the walls.