Problem 1: List the claims Colson makes about the effect on children being raised by single parents, particularly by single mothers.
Problem 2: What is Colsons's thesis? Where does he state it directly?
Problem 3: What evidence does Colson present to link same-sex marriage to an increase in out-of-wedlock births? To link single-parent households with the increase in crime, early parenthood, and other problems of young people? How effective do you find this evidence?
Problem 4: What other arguments does Colson make against same-sex marriage?
Problem 5: Analyse the reasoning in Colson's argument. What are its claims and assumptions?
Problem 6: Why does Colson put quotation marks around the word marriage when referring to same-sex unions?
Problem 7: What is the effect of the question with which Colson opens his essay?
Problem 8: What is the purpose of paragraph 7?
Problem 9: What role does cause and effect play in the essay?