You may want to homeschool ping this one out..it relates to education
Liberals will attack this study as : 1. An attack on single mothers. 2. An attack on homosexual parents. 3. Liberals will point out how some men are bad fathers, as if the existence of individual less than ideal fathers negates the results of the study.
Remember how Dan Quayle was pilloried for being critical of a TV show which featured a single mother who chose to not be involved with the father of her child??? The liberal view was basically that he was attacking single mothers for talking about the importance of fathers.
My kids’ father died when they were young. I’m thankful for their step-dad. I hope that’s an exception.
For those of us who voted for Trump, this was common knowledge.
I was at a seminar and they said even kids that have mom and dad and good families are affected by it, as they think their family is next. I noticed a few times when our kids were young my wife and I would disagree on something (not even yelling - well, arguing, but not yelling) and one of the kids would say “our you getting a divorce?” Sad.
Well Gee, really?
My children’s bio-father morphed into a real alcoholic loser.
I only bailed when it got to the battered part.
My current husband of 35 years was tossed by a wife who thought her bf wanted her and the kids instead of just a roll in the sheets.
Prior to our marrying, we only got into one real fight (non-violent) and when the kids came home from their various friends and asked where he was and I replied, “Don’t know and don’t care.” they packed up their stuff and bedding and moved out into the barn!
I lost that round, but we all won, in the long run.
The remaining kids became state-class athletes, got good grades and have stable homes of their own.
So whoever wrote that stuff didn’t research too well. Just enough to write another self-praising screed.
No, I don’t deny that first-time parents are usually the best but I know far too many who may be married but should NEVER be parents.
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.
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...
Why is this news? This has been established fact for many years.
I discuss the psychological effects of OOW (Out of Wedlock) births in “Chaos and Mayhem”
But it is better than abortion, I guess.
I handled hundreds of cases, maybe 700 or so, in juvenile court not counting adoptions. These would have been “kids in trouble” kinds of cases. In all but a couple the kids did not have both legal parents living at home.