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Originally posted by bilmore
(I hear what you're saying, but offer something that doesn't just critique these, but validly supports your thesis.)
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I have read many of the studies themselves. I read the studies in the journals in which they are published.
My main point is that it is a correlation that these studies are showing, not causation. The fact that people stay married isn't causing their children to be happy and well-adjusted. However, happy well-adjusted children do correlate with parents who stay married. But that is not a function of the mere fact that the parents stayed married. It is because those parents who have a happy, low conflict marriage are more likely to stay married and those parents who are happy and in a low conflict marriages are more likely to raise happy, well-adjusted kids.
Many of these studies that purport to show that staying married is better for children never even attempt to assess the level of conflict in a marriage.
