If you're in your 40s or older, you may remember the big flap when TV sitcom journalist Murphy Brown, played by Candice Bergen, decided to have a baby without benefit of marriage. Among those who sounded off was then-Vice President Dan Quayle, who publicly chastised single mothers like the fictional Murphy for "ignoring the importance of fathers."
Without in any way denying the value of dads, we'd point out that since that breakthrough in 1992, there has been a seismic shift in the modern American family's diversity. Today, the traditional model of a married mom and dad and one or more children represents only 20% of families, according to "LoveFamilyMoney," a 2014 study funded by Allianz.
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