Marriage boosts prosperity - study

[Stevious]

Tue Sep 13, 6:42 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stable marriage can increase the financial prosperity of couples and improves the lives of American children, including those being raised by same-sex couples, according to a report released on Tuesday.

Children already being raised by same-sex couples can also benefit when those couples marry, the study suggested.

"First, marriage may increase children's material well-being through such benefits as family leave from work and spousal health insurance eligibility," the report said. "Second, same-sex marriage may benefit children by increasing the durability and stability of their parents' relationship."

The report comes as the Bush administration proposes some $1.5 billion in spending over the next five years on marriage programs and as the debate over same-sex marriage hits a fever pitch.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050913/ts_nm/life_marriage_dc

[BR_Parkway]

1. Obviously not funded by Focus on everyone else's damn family

or any of the other prominent hate groups masking as religion to collect millions of tax free dollars.

But I'm one who's still waiting for the sky to fall in or the locusts to take over Mass, they've been allowing them homos to marry for over a year now and it's still not ruined any straight folks marraiges that I've been able to find.