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To: Lane3 who wrote (93870)	1/5/2005 3:40:25 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

I agree. The data is simply too difficult to evaluate. Even the Rutgers Fatherhood Project folks which CB cites essentially acknowledges this to be the case: fatherhood.org Nonetheless, I think one can validly say that kids from intact families are probably more likely to avoid the more obvious difficulties. The issue is so difficult to evaluate that the only valid stance I think is that judgments have to be made, instead of hard and fast pronounciamientos which are subject to doubt even by those who make them. In that sense, I think one can validly judge/opine that intact families on the whole lead to better results than broken families. And I would agree with such a judgment, knowing full well the near impossibility of proving the proposition statistically.

To: Lane3 who wrote (93870)	1/5/2005 3:51:58 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793717

Would young men become sexual predators if they were raised in an environment where sexual predation was not considered normal, acceptable behavior? Would young women have sex with countless multiple partners and give birth to children without fathers if they were raised in an environment where these behaviors were not considered acceptable behaviors? I think not. Can I prove it? Well, let's see. Statistically, it was almost unheard of for Puritan couples in colonial Massachusetts for the woman to be pregnant when the couple got married, whereas, in colonial Virginia, populated by Cavaliers, it was almost as common as it was in the early 20th century. Both sets of couples were from England. What else can explain the difference other than social expectations? (Source: ALBION'S SEED: FOUR BRITISH FOLKWAYS IN AMERICA by David Hackett Fischer, Oxford University Press, 1989.)