Showing empirically that growing up fatherlessness often has dire social consequences for children, he has challenged the social desirability of social policies which sustain and even reward single-parent family arrangements.
A woman raised in a single-parent family is hectored by her dinner host, a married father, who wants to impress upon her the superiority of his domestic arrangements.
These include whether they are in a single-parent family, whether there is a lot of domestic strife in their family, and whether their family is economically disadvantaged.
