Who needs them

Every morning I retrieve from the front of the house my Detroit Free Press, I only get it for the crossword puzzle, yesterday as usual I went out and got the paper. But a wonderful thing happened when I opened the paper to read it, inside was a section on scholars athletes in Michigan. I know how is that wonderful, let me explain. For any number of years we have had naturalistic philosophers tell us that the traditonal family is passe, out dated, no longer needed to raise children. After all didn't Ms. Hillary tells us that "it takes a village to raise children". Anyway back to the newspaper, without even knowing it the Detroit Free Press gave its tacit approval for the traditonal family, the family where there are both a father and a mother. There were approxiamtely 300 young men and women from around the state of Michigan who had been nominated by there schools to be the scholar athletes. Nothing big there, it is the practice of many states to honor the young people who displayed a quality of leadership both in the classroom and on the athletic field. Yet as I read the article that something surprising jumped off the page at me. Of the 300 or soo young people depicted only hndful came from an apparent non-traditional family. The majority came from what conservatives call a traditional family one where there is a father and mother. That speaks loudly, because even in the schools that would be considered inner city a majority of those special scholar atheletes had both parents listed.
What does all of this mean, maybe nothing but maybe it says that children thrive better, achieve more in a tradition family setting where there is a mom and dad than they do in so called progessive or non-traditional families where there may be a single parent or two parents of the same sex.