Survey Says

In my other life, as a reporter for a metropolitan daily newspaper, my email inbox routinely overflows with media pitches and story ideas. Among this week's dreck, I was pleased to stumble upon an email from a nonprofit Child Trends, pitching the news that babies born outside of marriage is something worth empirical study. This is good because nothing helps to legitimize anecdotal trends like movie stars preggers by their ex-boyfriends or unmarried couples living together with children than a research brief with lots of charts, graphs, and sentences that are hard to understand.