Teens from intact families with frequent religious attendance were least likely to have ever gotten into a fight (27.1 percent) when compared to (a) their peers from intact families with infrequent religious attendance (32.1 percent), (b) peers from non-intact families with frequent religious attendance (34.3 percent), and (c) peers from non-intact families with infrequent religious attendance (43.5 percent).
Source: Source: Fagan, Patrick, A Portrait of Family and Religion in America: Key Outcomes for the Common Good, (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation 2006), pp. .
(HT: FamilyFacts.org)
Interesting fact. I wonder how much we can deduce from it because of course one can not take such statistics and say that intact families and religion are the reason that those kids got into less fights. However the connection is interesting and in my opinion deserves more research.
The notion that a child's aggression level has nothing to do with whether they come from an intact or non-intact family is foolish.
Not foolish at all. This is a very fine difference but I hope you catch it. What I said above is that we can not say that split family leads to a child being more agressive. That is we can not say that divorce is somehow the reason that the child is more agressive unless we do some more research and manage to establish that link. What we can say is that there seems to be a connection between the two, that is a child that comes from a family that is not intact is more likely to be agressive.
You can best realize the difference in the following way. If I picked any child from a broken marriage then if we had a causality then I could firmly say that the child was more agressive than children from not broken families. That is obviously wrong because I know children from broken families that are very peaceful. What we can say however is that if I hand over a group of 100 kids from broken families then they are more likely to be agressive than a similar group of kids from non-broken families.
This "family fact" is deeply flawed (as are the others presented) in that the study does not control for other important factors, particularly income level. A disproportionate number of non-intact families live below the poverty level. I suspect that the negative behaviors correlate at much higher significance with income than with family status.
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Gear up for grub with a tripleheader of pigskin, including a meeting of brothers in Dallas. Everybody knows it's been a rough year for her, but find out who else had issues
Gear up for grub with a tripleheader of pigskin, including a meeting of brothers in Dallas. Everybody knows it's been a rough year for her, but find out who else had issues