But the two-parent family was now available only to the "very privileged."

One of the reports presented to the conference said that children raised in two-parent families do best at school.

Students were living with two-parent families who have college degrees.

Table 4 Main source of income for one and two-parent families, 1987.

One will reward states that get more poor children into two-parent families.

A two-parent family is defined as a mother and father living together, married or not.

If they find it in a two-parent family, so much the better.

It would seem to follow that two-parent families are also best for a community.

That, he said, would account for the increase in the numbers of two-parent families.

He grew up in a private home with a two-parent family.