1.   An intact loving family is a blessing.

2.   And because two-wage-earner households are now the national norm, intact families are under enormous stress as well.

3.   Children from one-parent families, for instance, are twice as likely to quit school as children from intact families, McLanahan says.

4.   Even fairly intact families are off in little clusters most of the year.

5.   Everyone favors intact families in which parents spend as much time as possible with their children.

6.   He himself is the product of an intact family in a neighborhood of split-level houses in suburban Livingston, in northern New Jersey.

7.   In intact families, fathers are increasingly involved with their children, often moving into nurturing roles.

8.   Teens from single-parent or stepparent homes are more likely to possess drugs, own a weapon, or assault someone at school than teens from intact families.

9.   The children of divorce are less likely to attend college than children from intact families.

10.   The face of welfare in the Hasidim is typically the face of a working father, one who reports his income and is a partner in an intact family.