Statements about Families
Says his executive order requiring young girls to be vaccinated against HPV wasn't mandatory.
"Inequality in Texas is steadily getting worse, with very few rich people, a great many poor people, and fewer and fewer in the middle."
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
"In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock."
"I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."
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."
"Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock."
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