claim: in countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock."
author: sam brownback
evidence_1: may 25, 2004 ... m. v. lee badgett, professor of economics and gay and lesbian studies at the  university of massachusetts at amherst, has a slate piece that purports to ... 83  percent of first-born children in the northern norwegian county of nord- troendelag were born out of wedlock, as were 58 percent of subsequent ...
evidence_2: in countries that have redefined marriage, where they've said, ok, it's not just a  man and a woman, it can be two men, two women, the marriage rates in those  countries have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern europe  where 80% of the first-born children are born out of wedlock. we don't need more  ...
evidence_3: mar 6, 2013 ... experience of legalising marriage for same-sex couples in europe and north  america ... across all countries analysed no causal link has been established to  support the idea that same-sex marriage prevents marital decline. ..... about 60%  of first born children in denmark now have unmarried parents. 29.
evidence_4: may 1, 2003 ... the extent to which benefits continue to be conditioned on marriage is important  as well. in all these countries except japan, a substantial minority of children are  born out of wedlock and about half spend some part of their childhood without  married parents. countries like the us and germany give married ...
evidence_5: african americans are an ethnic group of americans with total or partial ancestry  from any of the black racial groups of africa. this term may also be used to  include only those individuals who are descended from enslaved africans. as a  compound adjective, the term is usually hyphenated as african-american. black  and ...