Pope Francis on the disintegration of marriage

From the 2014 Humanum:

"[M]arriage and the family are in crisis. ...  more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.  This revolution in manners and morals has often flown the flag of freedom, but in fact it has brought spiritual and material devastation to countless human beings, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.

"Evidence is mounting that the decline of the marriage culture is associated with increased poverty and a host of other social ills, disproportionately affecting women, children and the elderly.  It is always they who suffer the most in this crisis.

"The crisis in the family has produced an ecological crisis, for social environments, like natural environments, need protection.  And although the human race has come to understand the need to address conditions that menace our natural environments, we have been slower to recognize that our fragile social environments are under threat as well...  It is therefore essential that we foster a new human ecology... [that recognizes] family [as] the foundation of co-existence and a remedy against social fragmentation... that [encourages] our youth [to] not give themselves over to the poisonous environment."

Science behind a happy relationship

Courtesy of Happify:

Study: two-parent families improve economic mobility

What is the most important factor blocking social mobility in the US? 
It could be single parents, not economic inequality.
 
As reported by New Scientist:

An important new Harvard study that looks at the best community data on [economic] mobility in America – released this past weekend – suggests a cause that progressives may find discomforting. ...

A lot of research – including new research from the Brookings Institution – has shown us that kids are more likely to climb the income ladder when they are raised by two, married parents. But this is the first study to show that lower-income kids from both single and married-parent families are more likely to succeed if they hail from a community with lots of two-parent families. ...

Economic inequality was not a statistically significant predictor of absolute or relative mobility.