PATTERSON STUDY: Tom Sylvester
[There's an interesting comment appended to his post, too. --Eve]
...Now, I want to be clear that this may not be a problem with this particular study, as I haven't read it. I'm not criticizing the study, and its findings seem to correspond with other research we have so far. But the "family relationships matter, not family type" formulation is usually trotted out in an attempt to downplay the evidence that children tend to do best with their own, two married parents. Of course family relationships matter more than family type. Does any family scholar suggest otherwise? The issue is to what extent family structure affects parent-child relationships. Parent-child relationships are, on average, stronger and more positive in intact families. And I don't think that finding can be fully explained by selection effects, genetics, or other confounding variables.
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