• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

    Maggie Gallagher: When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast 
expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. 
There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social 
programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, 
drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.