Marriages are scarce in urban America but abound in wealthier suburbs: study

Despite extensive research showing that children raised in stable, two-parent married households are statistically more likely to succeed, a new report from the Institute for Family Studies found that marriages are concentrated in wealthier, predominantly white suburbs but are so scarce in many urban, often predominantly black neighborhoods that researchers have dubbed them “marriage deserts.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”