The wrong marriage debate

Mona Charen: Though we had a vigorous national discussion about unwed childbearing back in the 1990s — 'Murphy Brown' followed by 'Dan Quayle Was Right' by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead in the Atlantic magazine a few years later — our current preoccupation with gay marriage has distracted us. The issue of greater importance is the degree to which heterosexual men and women are choosing to become parents while unmarried. 'If you see 10 babies in the room,' Stephanie Ventura of the NCHS told the Washington Post, 'four of them were born to women who are not married.'