American writer Maggie Gallagher has distilled ten good reasons why marriage works from the mountain of empirical evidence she has accumulated in her new book The Case for Marriage (available from News Weekly Books for $33 plus p&h).When people debate the value of marriage, most attention focuses on the potential harm to children of divorce or illegitimacy, and for good reason. Mountains of research tell us that children reared outside of intact marriages are much more likely than other children…
