Why the Institution of Marriage Provides Stability Benefits for Children

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:26.6	Dr.ora.com.
0:28.2	One of the things that I'm bored, bored with.
0:34.5	But it's a reality of life, so I perk up and deal with it anyway.
0:39.8	We had a call yesterday, a father has a 20-something-year-old daughter who's been shacking up with some dude,
0:47.5	and now she's knocked up out of wedlock.
0:49.7	Now, his wife, the mother of said daughter, has made it clear that she will not go to their place of sleeping, eating, showering, because she does not respect her daughter's choice.
1:08.9	The father called and actually said that he had respect her daughter's choice. The father called and actually said that he had respect for their decisions.
1:19.9	Why he's married, I don't know, if he really doesn't think the covenant is significant.
1:28.2	But what a crappy role model and leader for a family.
1:35.7	He was afraid what would happen when he told his wife.
1:40.5	Well, as far as we got, I pretty much just told him off and got irritated because he kept talking over me.
1:46.1	So I thought I'd go a little bit more into the subject today.
1:50.9	Children, this is from the Brookings Institute, which is a think tank.
1:54.9	Okay?
1:56.2	They have lots of interesting articles on all sorts of things.
1:59.6	Good resource.
2:02.4	Non-political.
2:08.0	Children who see the end of their parents' relationship and then additional partners coming in and out of the home are more likely to act up in school, end up pregnant as teenagers,
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