Kids need a father and a mother; the folks at Brookings and Heritage agree

Studies have shown for years that kids coming from single parent households are more likely to do drugs, commit crimes, and become pregnant at an early age. No wonder that single parent kids are also more likely to be poor.

Here's what the left wing Brookings Institute says on the matter:

The effects on children of the increase in single parents is no longer much debated. They do less well in school, are less likely to graduate, and are more likely to be involved in crime, teen pregnancy, and other behaviors that make it harder to succeed in life.

Not every child raised by a single parent will suffer from the experience, but, on average, a lone parent has fewer resources—both time and money—with which to raise a child.

Poverty rates for single-parent families are five times those for married-parent families. … The growth of such families since 1970 has increased the overall child poverty rate by about 5 percentage points (from 20 to 25%). …

Recent research suggests that boys are indeed more affected than girls by the lack of a male role model in the family. If true, this sets the stage for a cycle of poverty in which mother-headed families produce boys who go on to father their own children outside marriage.

That's pretty similar to what the Heritage Foundation says:

Child poverty is an ongoing national concern, but few are aware of its principal cause: the absence of married fathers in the home.

According to the U.S. Census, the poverty rate for single parents with children in the United States in 2009 was 37.1%. The rate for married couples with children was 6.8%. Being raised in a married family reduced a child’s probability of living in poverty by about 82%.

Some of this difference in poverty is due to the fact that single parents tend to have less education than married couples, but even when married couples are compared to single parents with the same level of education, the married poverty rate will still be more than 75% lower.

Marriage is a powerful weapon in fighting poverty. In fact, being married has the same effect in reducing poverty that adding five to six years to a parent’s level of education has.

So clearly societies attacks on marriage are a problem.  Even worse the Democrats, despite warnings from Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, structured the welfare system to encourage single parent families.

Why then don't Democrats like Joe Biden push for changes to the welfare system and changing societies views on voluntary single parent families?

Perhaps for the same reason that Joe doesn't talk about the thousands of Blacks shot and murdered each year in Democrat run cities.