Social justice and the family

23 November 12, 2015 Social justice and the family ANDREA MROZEK Executive Director, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada The following is based on a talk given for the Christian Legal Fellowship about the connections between strong families and social justice. [...] Women and children suffer more financially in a divorce than men.1 Canadian researchers Finnie and Sweetman have shown that moving from a single to a couple family lifts more than half of formerly poor singles out of poverty.2 Between Two Worlds is a book about how the children of divorce feel and fare, even into adulthood, when their lives are split between two homes.3 Then there’s the research s. [...] That’s why I was surprised to hear singer/songwriter Susan Aglukark muse at a recent conference about the family that if parents are not present in a child’s life, no amount of intervention can replace that.5 That’s the heart of the matter. [...] 2 Fertile ground for human flourishing The IMFC is dedicated to studying marriage and family with an eye to defending and promoting these institutions in the public square using research and statistics. [...] Permission granted to reprint in full with attribution to the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada.