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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the context?
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This was a campus tour presentation and this was her observation on what matters among admitted families. According to her admitted students are more likely to come from intact homes.

Not test scores, nothing else apparently. Marital status...[/quote]

Intact families directly correlate with higher test scores and more success in life.

You can't really say it this decade in the era of perpetual offense, but the most positive thing you can do for kids' development is raise them in an intact, 2 parent household with both their mom and their dad.  This is a statistical truth.[/quote]

It's important but it's far from the most important thing you can give your kids. Being married is simply associated with a lot of other factors.

Having stable, loving, involved parents, divorced or not, is far more important. Good community and connections. Strong friendships throughout adolescence. Stable income. Good ZIP Code. Good health.

And you know what, you can provide all of the above and have a less than perfect outcome, even disastrous and unexpected outcomes.  There are plenty of examples of people NOT having a stable family life and turning out quite well, Obama or Kamala Harris for example (JD Vance for that matter).

It's foolish to think that just staying married is some kind of golden key, just like the opposite of it is not a curse.  Can't believe some of you got this far in parenting and think this way.[/quote]

+1. Actually all four presidential and VP candidates don't come from intact and stable two parent families. [/quote]

And I think that most people will universally agree, that with the exception of Vance those candidates are not our best or brightest.[/quote]

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