Problem Behaviors of Children by Parents

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Problem Behaviors of Children by Parents
Marital Status
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Divorce
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Intact Marriage
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Lied About Something Important
Stole from a Store
Damaged School Property
Hurt Someone Enough to Need a Doctor
Drunk
Had to Bring Parents to School
Skipped School without Permission
Source National Longitudinal Survey of
Adolescent Health Wave 2, 1996
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Adolescent Cocaine Use By Family Structure
Source Add Health Wave II 1996
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Source C. Harper and S. McLanahan, Father
Absence and Youth Incarceration, ASA Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, August 1998. Data from
the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
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• HEALTH,
• MENTAL
• HEALTH

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Adolescents in Poor Health by Family
StructureSource The National Longitudinal Study
of AddHealth, Wave II (1996) PA58
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• SEXUALITY
• AND
• MARRIAGE

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• THE CULTURE

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Rejection/Ambivalence Ratio for Every 100
Children Born
70
Children Aborted
Children of Divorce
60
Children born out of Wedlock
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40
30
20
10
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
Source National Center for Health Statistics
data and Alan Guttmacher Institute data
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Schema Having Vs Belonging in the US
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• Choice is the causation under our control
• Intergenerational consequences of choice
• in family issues and behaviors.
• Teaching our children to be their own cause
• Two paths on sexuality Monogamy or Not
• The way we treat sexual intercourse structures
  society

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• Marriage Makes a Difference
• Especially if children are to reach their
  potential
• But also for the familys income --- But income
  is endogenous to family structure
• On every outcome measured the cohort of children
  from intact married families does best ..always,
  everywhere.

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• The nation thrives to the degree families are
  intact. The nation pays to the degree they are
  not.
• Rejection weakens belonging strengthens
• Especially rejection or belonging between mother
  and father.

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• Congress saw the need to restore marriage in 1996
  
• But punted to the states.. Oklahoma took it up
• Congress acted on teenage Out of Wedlock Births
• Introduced and financed Abstinence Education
  Programs
• Feds now have 2 sex education policies

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5 Tasks --- 5 Institutions
Family / Sex Affection Church / Worship School /
Education Government/ Citizen Marketplace/ Income
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• WWW.
• FAMILYFACTS.
• ORG
• For Journal Research Findings

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• WWW.
• HERITAGE.
• ORG
• For Maps of Family
• And Religion

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The End ----- Is To Belong