arguments in two cases challenging legal restrictions on same-sex
marriage. Proponents and opponents sought to cudgel one another
with sociological and psychological studies aiming to prove that
science is on their side. In slightly different version of this
article that originally appeared the Wall Street Journal's
Ideas Market, Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey
parses the data on same-sex marriage, divorce, children, and
monogamy.
Being A Teen Parent Won't Cost You?" campaign aims to
discourage teenagers from having babies by warning of the high
costs that pregnancy can have both for adolescent parents and for
their children. The ads are being widely denounced for "shaming and
blaming" poor teen parents. Reason Science Correspondent
Ronald Bailey argues that there's nothing shameful about
publicizing accurate information about the bad consequences of
becoming a parent before you've graduated from high school.
