Educators and public officials know all too well that when young people turn aggressive—in their attitudes or in their physical behavior—it causes trouble, for others and for themselves. But what social circumstances incubate such aggressiveness in children? A new study out of the University of Texas at Dallas suggests that parents foster social aggression in […]
Read MoreSociologists have known for some time that children of divorced parents fall short in their educational attainments, when compared to peers from intact families. A prime reason for this deficiency comes to light in a study recently completed at the University of Oslo in Norway: children who lose a parent (usually their father) through divorce […]
Read MoreIn recent decades, demographers have tracked a remarkable upturn in the fraction of Americans living alone, an upturn largely attributable to a tumbling marriage rate and a stubbornly high divorce rate. Some progressive commentators have actually celebrated this development as a manifestation of the triumph of American individualism. But a study recently published in the […]
Read MoreChildren may suffer from neglect in any type of home; they may develop debilitating psychological or behavioral problems in any type of home. However, in a large national study recently completed at the University of Manitoba, researchers concluded that the Canadian children who suffer from neglect disproportionately come from single-parent homes, typically homes without fathers. […]
Read MoreAs though they did not face a daunting challenge dealing with sicknesses with identifiable physical causes, physicians working with adolescents must also treat an alarming number of psychosomatic illnesses—that is, illnesses triggered by mental or emotional stress. And a new study out of Sweden suggests that reducing that number may be difficult so long as […]
Read MoreWho has benefitted from the war radical feminists have waged against marriage? Certainly not young women. A very large new Canadian study concludes that one of the strongest predictors of depression among young women is the loss of a biological parent. And it is the easy divorces that feminists have pushed for that have typically […]
Read MoreAlmost nothing drives up medical expenses like repeated hospital stays. So at a time when the nation is struggling to contain runaway medical costs, a study deserves particularly close attention when it identifies key reasons for re-hospitalization of those suffering from pneumonia, a disease afflicting millions every year in the United States. Such a study—recently […]
Read MoreBecause of the high cost of hospital care, public-health officials value any arrangement that reduces the need for such care. And a new study clearly identifies an intact marriage as just such an arrangement. Conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic, this new study analyzes the reasons that patients who are released from hospital care […]
Read MoreHow well do children fare when raised by a pair of same-sex parents? Whenever this question arises—and the issue has loomed large in the debate over same-sex “marriage”—homosexual activists have brandished dozens of sociological studies apparently demonstrating that children of same-sex couples do just as well or better than peers being raised by two biological […]
Read MoreSchool administrators have recognized for some time that students are particularly likely to drop out of high school if they move from one school to another. However, a study recently completed at Johns Hopkins University indicates that the likelihood that students will drop out of high school depends less on whether they have moved to […]
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