Conservatives have a lot of science in their favor these days. Bookshelves are bowed down with the studies of social science researchers, development psychologists, and neuroscientists that largely confirm the instincts of social conservatives. This research has so thoroughly overturned the tables that a liberal think tank fellow (the Brookings Institute's Isabel Sawhill) recently praised Dan Quayle's condemnation of Murphy Brown becoming a single parent on the 1992 sitcom
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