Religion & Law

A new study shows that Americans are more accepting of families headed by a same-sex couple than they are of families headed by a single mom.  And while the numbers on the same-sex couple question have moved dramatically in recent years, the numbers on the single-mom question have not.  I'm not convinced that this reflects any illegitimate bias against single moms rather than an acknowledgment of the empirical data that kids raised by single parents do not fare as well on a number of scores as kids raised by two parents.  We don't, as far as I'm aware, have similar data suggesting caution about same-sex couples.  So maybe we're headed away from the broader "traditional" versus "non-traditional" split in public opinion on family social policy and toward a "two parent" versus "single parent" split?