Posted on 03/28/2017 5:50:19 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Children have a stable home environment and perform better at school if their biological father lives with them (but the same benefits do not apply when a stepfather moves in)
Children are healthier and more likely to grow up with a good education and get a good job if their biological father lives with them, research reveals.
But when a stepfather moves into a family home there are no benefits for the children, the pioneering study of British families found.
The warning over the failure of stepfathers to help the families they bring up was drawn from records of the lives of more than 1,000 children born to single mothers at the turn of the Millennium.
The study, carried out by three researchers from the London School of Economics, checked on reports of the health, intelligence and social skills of the children up to the age of seven.
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Try being the dad who was thrown out!
I was lucky, my financial strength kept me close, and the kids have done well. However, not all dads have that advantage, in fact as I've observed, it can be pretty bleak!
Speaking of bleak, two of my grand kids had stepdads, and their life was bleak until grandpa and grandma helped out.
>>Didn’t even the president at the time complain about that show???<<
VP Dan Quayle (who got a raw deal on EVERYTHING) started a massive firestorm when he said decisions such a single motherhood on purpose was morally wrong.
And we see after these years he was 100% correct on this and a good many things.
“Perhaps the difference is in the quality of men that some women choose.”
we have a winner! Some women just chose losers and we read about this every day.
Okay now I remember that!!! Yes he did get a raw deal! Murphy Brown was trash and it opened the doors to women having babies out of wedlock with no man in the child’s life.
Its really so obvious.
My teacher friends tell me that if a child has both parents at home, with a stable marriage and family life, regardless of their study or other habits, the kids will be OK and avoid any major problems.
London School of Economics. Bastion of godless communist rat bastards. George Soros’ alma mater. Stunned they would publish these results.
Culture is a pendulum that swings between over-permissive and overprotective. If the LSE is putting this out, the times they are a changin’.
BREAKING NEWS!
Water is Wet!
My bio father (and mother) walked away, my foster father was a gutless wonder and my foster mother was a mean, self loathing wretch...
I turned out just fine.
The origin of the problem is the mindset of the parents. I teach young people that when you date you are auditioning a parent for your children.
Too many men seek nothing but hot sex, and too many women are looking for someone to shower them with the affection they crave. They miss the whole point of marriage, which is to create and rear the next generation.
Indeed.
That's admirable, but I respectfully ask: What's you point?
>Too many men seek nothing but hot sex, and too many women are looking for someone to shower them with the affection they crave. They miss the whole point of marriage, which is to create and rear the next generation.
Actually in the modern dating market most of the women are chasing hot sex while a minority of men are getting most of it on a rotating basis. The vast majority of men would like nothing better than to get married and have a family but women are too busy screwing around and working making it largely impossible.
This is a pretty common in collapsing civilizations and the solution is a return to patriarchy.
“and too many women are looking for someone to shower them with the affection they crave. “
All too often this affection they did not get from a father? Come on we know it’s true.
I beg to differ. My father was killed in a car accident weeks before I was born, so my mom was a single mother—never remarried, never shacked up, none of that nonsense.
I have an IQ in the 160+ range. I was consistently the highest of the high honors students. We’re talking a 99% average for an entire semester, that’s how good my grades were. And I didn’t go to public schools; I worked my way through a Catholic high school with much tougher grading standards than the public schools had.
Meanwhile, there were plenty of kids from stable families, who struggled to make C’s.
Why? Because my mother focused like a laser on education, teaching me to read, write, and do primary-school math before I even set foot in a classroom. She even had me potty-trained before I was a year old!
Meanwhile, the kids in my school who were from two-parent families...well, let’s just say that the parents were more focused on each other, than they were on tutoring Junior. Their attitude was, it’s the teachers’ job to teach my kids.
And there are plenty of single parents, whose kids are fantastic students. One shining example that comes to mind is Daisy Luther, who has a blog called The Organic Prepper. It’s a great read, not just about prepping, but about homeschooling.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a single mom, single dad, or both parents are in the home—the kids aren’t going to be excellent students unless the parents make a strong effort to educate their children. That’s why homeschooled kids do so much better than kids who go to school.
And this screwy “study” completely fails to address all the wonderful step-parents who have actually made a positive difference in their step-children’s lives.
...said Captain Obvious...
I would like to think that is so.
Who pays for “studies” that conclude what common sense tells most normal folks?
Absolutely. That is something male predators know and use to their advantage.
Adoption is a whole different ball game.
Adoption is having a baby by way of the heart not the uterus.
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