The New York Times reports that 53 percent of babies delivered to women under 30--the prime motherhood demographic--enter the world without parents married to one another. Feminist single-mom Katie Roiphe is outraged at the paper's tone suggesting that this is a bad thing. Roiphe argues that society's scorn, represented by cruel terms such as "bastard," is the real handicap for the children of illegitimacy. But as a I write @ FrontPageMag, a trove of social-science studies, and an authority closer to Roiphe's home, indicate that the pitfalls of single-parenthood are far more dangerous than nasty names.