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, . . .
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I see what you’re saying, and I agree. I misunderstood you earlier. My apologies.
I know you didn’t mean it to be, but I actually found your comment to be offensive.
Knowing right from wrong and believing in a higher power does not guarantee a healthy or happy child. I spent the first 18 years of my life being forced to go to church. I avoided it for more than 20 years, yet I never lost sight of God.
Now I enjoy my faith because it is my choice, just as it is my daughter’s choice to participate or not. We are members of the Episcopal Church, but she attends weekly youth group at the local Baptist church. I was raised in the Catholic church and my husband in the Methodist church. We’re all Christians. However, I will not force it upon my daughter as it was forced upon me.
I did not intend to offend you, believe me.
In my case both my little brother and I wanted to attend Sunday School every Sunday morning. Our parents never went to church at all! But we tried out all the churches until we tried the Episcopal Church where we were both confirmed at age 12, and sang in the choir. in l982 I left the Episcopal Church because I felt it had strayed so far from the original prayer book, and God’s will. Since then I belong to a non-denominal church based strictly on scripture. I love John Hagee and Charles Stanley.
At this point I do not attend church because I can’t see or hear well, but I live everyday with my Lord, and I am so blessed.
I know you didn’t intend to offend, which is why I said so at the beginning :)
Our daughter wanting to attend Sunday school is what prompted us to start attending services. Our church “family” has now become a big part of our lives. We do occasionally miss service, but it is usually with reason - like this past Sunday, we were out of town!
We live in a rural community and the congregation is small, which has much to do with why I so enjoy being a part of it. I’m a lay reader, serve on the Altar Guild, and am the scribe for the Vestry. Our daughter is the closest thing they have to head Acolyte and she is going to be confirmed in September or October, depending upon when the Bishop is going to be coming up this way. My husband is most likely going to me nominated to the Vestry in January.
We don’t wear it on our sleeves, but we do live the life every day. And are thankful for it.
The attacks will continue, from many different directions. The family is the strength and soul of the USA, and marriage makes the family. Marriage is the bedrock of civilization, so any attack on marriage is an attack on civilization.
This should be most obvious to educators and social workers, but they make up much of the group who attack marriage, directly or with their voting choices. Go figure.
No apology needed, I could’ve worded it a little better and certainly your point is spot on.
A lot of couples are MINOs.
Well, there yiou see. Your daughter is happy because her family becasuse her family has the Lord in their lives. Case closed.
It all depends on the Leftist version of “improve.”
My husband and I were both from badly broken homes. Our individual walks through hell forged us into good people.
I can see how going through a difficult period can help someone gain strength and force them to think smarter to get through it.
But I wouldn’t say that that’s the ideal way to raise kids. Some will become like steel and some will melt in that particular forge.
Right now I have two teenagers. At this point I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no right way to raise kids. 8-\ I see mixed results no matter what the method of parenting. But at least I have no guilt. I did my very best by these kids. What they chose to do with that is on them.
And that is the only true upside of doing everything ‘right’. Even my kids admit that they can’t blame my husband and me for their personal failings. Maybe being forced to take responsibility for their personal choices will make them better people in the long run.
Bullsoup.
Children raised by a single mother are vastly more likely to be convicted felons, prison inmates, drug users, basically any measure of societal problems.
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