I don't have to tell you that families are falling apart, and that is born out by the following statistics:

• There has been a 200% growth in single parent households since 1970 - from four million to eight million homes.
• The number of married moms leaving home for work each morning rose 65% from 10.2 million in 1970, to 16.8 million in 1990.
• Married couples with children now make up only 26% of US households, down from 40% in 1970.
• 36% of children said their chores included making their own meals in 1993. Only 13% said the same in 1987.
• An estimated 70% of juvenile offenders come from single parent families.
• The average child has watched 8,000 televised murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school.
• One in six youths, between the ages of 10 and 17, has see…