Mitt was right!

Many on the left have jumped on Romney's statement during last night’s debate; "But gosh, to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone — that's a great idea because if there's a two-parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will — will be able to achieve increase dramatically."   Many on the left viewed this comment as a slap in the face to single parents (I have heard references to this at least 4 times this morning).  What Romney was referring to, of course, was a famous study done by William Galston (of the Brookings Institute) a Clinton domestic policy advisor in which he stated;  “You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.”

Romney did not make the argument as clear as he should, after all the question Romney was "answering" related to gun control but the clarity and logic of Galston's thesis is abiding and one that all American's and their policy makers should take to heart.