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To: Lane3 who wrote (93881)	1/5/2005 4:20:09 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793718

I don't know where you're going with this. That makes two of us. Without presuming to read CB's mind, I suspect, however, that the point is that in this day and age there is social reinforcement to intact families and marriage and that this reinforcement somehow leads to better results for the children. If this is the point, I would disagree with it to some extent because it is clear that our society no longer stigmatizes single parents as forcefully as it did in the past. Nonetheless, I think [subjectively, because I don't think the statistics are capable of proving the point one way or the other] that children from unbroken homes do better. I expect a different trend as the stigma to single parenthood disappears; it will soon be a thing of the past. I don't think children raised in a single parent home will ever do as well as children raised in an unbroken home since single parent families will still suffer from the traumatizing effects of whatever it is, other than simple incompatibility, that resulted in the breakup, such as abuse, drugs, alcohol, prison, etc.

To: Lane3 who wrote (93881)	1/5/2005 4:51:11 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793718

Human nature is never pre-ordained. Nevertheless, as the twig is bent, so the tree inclines, and the apple never falls far from the tree, while great oaks from little acorns grow. I've learned a lot from planting trees. ;^) In other words, at the moment I don't feel like digging too deeply into the data set. There's simply no way to perform controlled experiments on human beings when it comes to marriage and child rearing. If strong statistical correlations don't satisfy you, we don't need to belabor the point.