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Study: Marriage does not improve children's development
SFGate: The Mommy Files ^
| 7/20/11
| Amy Graff
Posted on 07/20/2011 11:38:44 AM PDT by SmithL
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The attacks on marriage continue, unabated.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:38:52 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Marriage does not improve children's development
Children shouldn't be getting married anyway.
;)
To: SmithL
My parents divorced when I was 13 and I did OK.
HOWEVER it wasn’t an ideal situation.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:41:23 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: SmithL
“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.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:41:32 AM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Faster than the speed of smell.)
To: SmithL
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!
To: SmithL
There was a study that a very high percentage of men in prison were raised without a father. I wish I had a reference.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:45:31 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.)
To: SmithL
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...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.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:45:57 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: SmithL
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.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:46:18 AM PDT
by
RowdyFFC
To: SmithL
Right . . . and Jerry Springer and Maury shows are full of examples of what single moms are doing with their one parent families. What a rousing success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The whole article is incredibly stupid and just what the anti-family feminists want to hear.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:47:10 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: SmithL
True...the act of marriage does not improve children's development.
If the couple is immature and without a clue about how to love and nurture children, signing a paper is not going to make any difference whatsoever.
But the part the liberals still don't understand is what marriage is all about; it's about two people being in love and wanting to spend their life together and bringing children into the world to be loved and nurtured.
But, just like getting a driver's license does not make one a good driver, getting married has nothing to do with the QUALITY of the parenting...that is up to the morals and caring of the parents.
Besides, they should get married FIRST, and then have the children...it would probably make a lot of difference.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:47:15 AM PDT
by
FrankR
("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat." - R. Reagan)
To: SmithL
People will believe this BS. Our country is dying because the family and its traditional values are being destroyed from within.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:47:47 AM PDT
by
Java4Jay
To: SmithL
Veiled tautologies do not make for meaningful conclusions.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:53:02 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: SmithL
"Rather it's a reflection of the types of people who tend to get married and those who don't, . . ."
That kind of statement is another reason that they're called feminazis. Dr. Gelles proved something during the '90s about bias in feminist "research" long ago. No conservative demonstrates such bias. Even some liberals don't.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:53:16 AM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in a noisy avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the earth.)
To: SmithL
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.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:54:57 AM PDT
by
Paperdoll
(NO MORE BUSHS!)
To: SmithL
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
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:56:08 AM PDT
by
RowdyFFC
To: SmithL
Reading stuff like this just reinforces my belief that sociology is not a scientific pursuit.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:57:08 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Someone the other day said I'm not a nice person. How did they know?)
To: Grunthor
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.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:57:43 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: SmithL
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, . . . 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.
To: RowdyFFC
Obviously you were a grown up. We are in such short supply these days.
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posted on
07/20/2011 11:58:29 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Someone the other day said I'm not a nice person. How did they know?)
To: SmithL
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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posted on
07/20/2011 12:01:37 PM PDT
by
Paperdoll
(NO MORE BUSHS!)
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