Posted on 07/20/2011 11:38:44 AM PDT by SmithL
Study after study has shown that children with married parents are better off, and our society has embraced the idea that children should be raised by married adults. The latest research digs deep into this long-held belief and reveals an interesting twist.
A new British study finds that kids of married parents are more intellectually advanced than those born out of wedlock, but this has nothing to do with marriage. Rather it's a reflection of the types of people who tend to get married and those who don't, . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
My parents divorced when I was 13 and I did OK.
HOWEVER it wasn’t an ideal situation.
“Study: Marriage does not improve children’s development”
That is a lie straight from the pit of hell. My wife and my previous g/f each were single mothers of the two most f’d up girls I’ve ever met. I have yet to meet a kid as messed up as these two that HAD a mother and a father living in the home.
We have radio ads here running which cite statistics on how much better children do in a home with married parents, and that you should try and save your marriage for their sake. And they are being run by a divorce attorney!
In a way, it makes sense. Folks who have kids out of wedlock are living example to their kids of the idea "why wait for it, if I want it now?" They take that mentality to everything they do, including school.
They will always drum up a study from somewhere to do so. Just like they used all those fake stories about insurance companies to demonize the US health care system.
Strong, well off, happy families who aren’t dependent on the government are enemies of these communists.
The whole article is incredibly stupid and just what the anti-family feminists want to hear.
People will believe this BS. Our country is dying because the ‘family’ and its traditional values are being destroyed from within.
Veiled tautologies do not make for meaningful conclusions.
It takes a unselfish and mature man and woman to make a good marriage. It takes a mother and a father well inundated with God’s rules for living contained in the Holy Bible to be good enough parents to raise happy and healthy children.
So far a good 50% of people getting married do not fill these requirements. Unfortunately they have children who will be damaged because children need a loving father and mother to be happy and healthy.
It sounds like this the meat of this article is one more attempt to disqualify the sanctity of marriage and the family. May the living God in Heaven stay anchored in our hearts forever.
I was a single mother and raised two. Thank goodness they are both well-adjusted, married to wonderful spouses, well-off, and two of the strictest parents I know.
Honestly, I can’t tell you how that happened as I practically raised them by phone from work 50 miles away and on business trips. But I did devote every waking minute to them when I was off work. We played together so hard, and in the evenings were glad to see each other and discuss our days together. I didn’t have anybody else to talk to so they were it! As they got older, they nick named me Cliff (obnoxious Cliff from Cheers that rattled on and on), lol
Reading stuff like this just reinforces my belief that sociology is not a scientific pursuit.
I married a divorced lady with two daughters. Her daughters behavior improved significantly. She says I “civilized” them.
Strangely enough, my behavior improved, too.
I am a lucky, lucky man, I am.
Evolution at work? '...the types of people who tend to get married...'
There are studies that show that children of married parents tend to marry other children of married parents. Thus, their children will continue to be more "intellectually advanced." And it's nothing to do with race or money. It's all about the family unit.
It's funny that some refuse to recognize this.
Obviously you were a grown up. We are in such short supply these days.
Please forgive the mistakes in my last post to you. I have Macular Degeneration and it is so difficult for me to see to properly edit my posts.
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