Study: When Fewer Parents Are Married, Poverty And Violence Skyrocket
March 21, 2025
Fractured families have contributed to a rise in child poverty, violence in our communities, and poor educational outcomes. That’s the already well-established finding of the 2025 Hope and a Future report from Center for Christian Virtue (CCV). While the statistics are bleak, the report also points to a solution: In order to address the sharp rise in child poverty, violence, and poor educational outcomes, states should incentivize married parents and support intact families.
According to CCV, the group commissioned the Institute for Family Studies and Professor Brad Wilcox, the Melville Foundation Jefferson Scholars Foundation University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to conduct the research in the report.
