Monday Links

Charles Murray on the case for marriage:  The unvarying finding, whether measured by arrest records, substance abuse, educational attainment, employment, income, or emotional well-being, is that, on average, children growing up with married birth parents fare better than children growing up in any alternative arrangement.

How did we go from believing that alcohol has no health benefits to the view that it explains why the French are healthier to the view that the safest level of drinking is not a single drop?

Study: poverty increases the odds of mortality. But couldn’t there be a third factor(s) that causes people to be non-poor and healthier?