LETTER: It Takes Two

To the Editor: Statistics suggest these two issues have a much greater correlation than LaMonica would have us believe. For example, 35 percent of families headed by a single mother live in poverty, compared with a poverty rate of only five percent for families headed by two parents. Furthermore, the real median income of families headed by a single mother was $16,000 in 1991, significantly less than the $41,000 median income of families headed by a married couple. Finally, when Dan Quayle talks of this clearly illustrated importance of the traditional family, he is not disparaging other types of families, he is simply stressing that such arrangements often have very real economic repercussions, in addition to the emotional and social problems that often result. This should not be overlooked, ignored or laughed at, as LaMonica, and the rest of the Clinton fan club disguised as the national media, seems to do. STEVE BLOOM Wharton '95