To: koan who wrote (146895 ) 11/9/2014 2:54:56 PM From: pcstel Read Replies (1) | Respond to <koan: "you don't mind being ignorant? That is an amazing statement.<ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Barrett & Turner, 2006 ), increased rates of daily cigarette smoking ( Miller & Volk, 2002 ), and smoking initiation ( Edelen et al ., 2007 ). Though, in the latter study, the presence of an adult or older sibling who smoked counteracted the protective effect of the nuclear family. Several explanations have been offered for this phenomenon. Single parents may be less able to provide consistent supervision and monitoring of their children, so youth from single parent households have more opportunities to experiment with substance use and other delinquent behaviors compared to youth from two-parent households bloombergview.com But is this true? Last year, I read a book that changed my outlook on American society: Charles Murray’s `` Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 .” In that book, Murray convincingly argues that a class divide has emerged in America, between educated people (“Belmont”) and uneducated people (“Fishtown”). The surprising thing is that Murray finds that the educated Belmonters, despite being much more socially liberal than their Fishtown counterparts, actually have more traditional family values -- they get married more, get divorced less and pay more attention to their children. After a period in the '70s and early '80s when educated people dabbled in single parenthood and high divorce rates, they went back to a traditional-family structure. Uneducated Americans, on the other hand, are abandoning marriage and two-parent child-rearing in droves . <
