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To: Bridge Player who wrote (83544)	9/11/2008 12:07:17 AM
From: Archie Meeties	Respond to of 542125

Religious affiliation may be protective of all sorts of risks, although the data is all correlative, not causative. It's not church going btw, it's adolescents who identify themselves with a religous group. The most likely explanation is that parents that are organized, get their kids ready for something on the weekend, place a priority on group and shared goals are also more likely to raise kids without serious problem vs. other parents. Religious affiliation includes Moslem, Jewish, and other faiths, not just Christian. pubmedcentral.nih.gov The relationship is pretty small, but it's there, and it's mostly a Western phenomenon. I'm not sure what the data would show in the mideast, for example. It's not self evident to me, as the most religious societies tend to be very violent, especially when religion begins to control the state, or the state co-ops a religion to serve their purpose.

To: Bridge Player who wrote (83544)	9/11/2008 9:28:06 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542125

You submit a baseless statement based on your personal prejudices with no statistics. I've already put out statistics on what events DO cause problems for kids. One of the major problems, divorce, is actually far less common in agnostic/atheist marriages than in the marriages of born agains... Ergo there is some strong statistical support that the children of born again parents are more likely to be causing trouble, NOT because their parents are born again (necessarily), but because their parents are more likely to divorce. You see, that's kind of what I hoped to see from you. But ok, you've got nothing. So yeah, I already felt free to disagree.