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Mary Lyndon Shanley is Margaret Stiles Halleck Professor of Political Science at Vassar College. She is author of Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents’ Rights; and Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England 1850—1895.
More than 1.5 million children currently have a parent in prison; for 94 percent of these children, that parent is the father.
American conservatives pride themselves on moral clarity—and nowhere greater than on the topic of marriage and family.
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