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Children better off with married parents

category international | public consultation / irish social forum | news report author Friday October 07, 2005 00:54author by Roger Eldridge - National Mens Council of Irelandauthor email familymen at eircom dot netauthor address Knockvicar, Boyle, Co. Roscommonauthor phone 07196-67138 Report this post to the editors

The furore surrounding the publication of research on parental versus institutional child care raises some interesting points other the ones that hit the headlines.

Everyone is acutely aware of the scandals of historical child abuse of children placed in institutional care by the state and that is partly why there exists today the LEGAL PRESUMPTION that a child's optimal welfare is to be found in the care of its MARRIED PARENTS acting jointly.

The presumption is based on the fact that these parents have subjected themselves to the regulation of marriage in the interests of the child and the good of society and concurs with the established social science evidence (which the authorities are now trying to conceal) which shows that, amongst all the different family permutations, significantly optimal outcomes for children can be predicted, in terms of health, educational achievement and social development, when they are brought up by their two married parents working together. A recent WHO report on children's health clearly showed this.

However, in the study by Penelope Leach, which can be downloaded for inspection from our website at www.family-men.com, there is no mention whatsoever of the marital status of the mothers of the children.

I must ask how any person who wants to be considered a reputable researcher can conduct and publish a report if their study does not acknowledge that marital status is THE major variable in the outcomes for children.

Because the effect of marital status is SO SIGNIFICANT it is not difficult to suppose that regardless of type of child caring arrangements employed children who are lucky enough to be born into a stable married family would fare significantly better.

This must make a complete nonsense of the study? Why is the variable of marital status not considered when it patently masks all other variables.

The answer is that the motive of feminist-state-funded research is to demonise and eradicate marriage by whatever lies and misrepresentation of the facts it can.

During an interview with Professor Belsky on the BBC we were told a listener phoned in with a question about the position regarding fathers as carers for children.

Prof Belsky did everything possible rather than answer the simple question. He twisted one way and then the other alluding to some difficulty in finding a representative sample of fathers and claiming men who looked after their children were in some way "strange".

What a load of twaddle. Obviously the good professor's own sympathies are being shown here rather than any academic prowess.

The answer to the listeners question is simply answered by Warren Farrell in his excellent book, "Father and Child Reunion".

In his book Farrell provides ample evidence that fathers are every bit as good as mothers at looking after children if obliged to. The research in fact shows that the outcomes for children, in terms of health, educational achievement and social development, are actually very slightly better when brought up by their fathers on their own rather than by the mother and father acting together and both these arrangements are statistically better than mothers acting on their own. Non-parental care is shown to be a total disaster.

Perhaps an important aspect of this that the professor could not quite utter is that the only class of fathers who are allowed to raise children on their own are husbands - either widowers or married men who do not want to be on their own but who have been deserted by their wives or where their wives have been shown to be unfit parents.

The point is that the question as to whether the father or mother is the better parent is a red herring - a typical ruse used by the feminist state for the past thirty years to foment a phoney war between men and women with the intention of dividing and ruling.

Obviously the ideal arrangement for children - and the one that the state is trying to eradicate, although it is obliged to support through every branch of government - is for them to be brought up in a stable married family with two parents exercising their complementary positions as husband and wife.

In this arrangement as long as there is one full-time parent caring at home, it is irrelevant which parent actually does it, or even if the child is looked after by someone else for a few hours whilst some pressing or part-time work is done.

However, if parents believe money is so important that they can't look after their own children themselves and voluntarily place them into full-time institutional child care, it is hard to see any difference between that situation and the state TAKING the children into care.

Roger Eldridge, Chairman. National Men's Council of Ireland, Knockvicar, Boyle, Co. Roscommon Www.family-men.com Tel: 00 353 (0) 71-9667138 Email: familymen@eircom.net

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Cause or effect Roger?     R.Isible    Fri Oct 07, 2005 01:01 
   Comment on Article by Roger Eldridge     Steve    Fri Oct 07, 2005 03:09 
   National Men's Council is reactionary     Feminist and proud of it    Fri Oct 07, 2005 14:37 
   There's a little propagandising going on here     John O'Driscoll    Fri Oct 07, 2005 15:45 
   Request for Roger     Badman    Fri Oct 07, 2005 16:07 
   Procreation or Recreation?     Good Girl    Fri Oct 07, 2005 18:25 
   Why Marriage Matters for Children     Trevor Stokes    Fri Oct 07, 2005 19:36 
   what and where are "feminist controlled states"?     one intelligent human being..."my moment has come"    Fri Oct 07, 2005 20:10 
   Perhaps a comment about the purpose of marriage is in order     Roger Eldridge    Sat Oct 08, 2005 00:19 
 10   Children better off with married parents     John O'Driscoll    Sat Oct 08, 2005 08:25 
 11   Excellent Assessment     Shipsea    Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:15 
 12   Children better off with married parents - reply to Shipsea     John O'Driscoll    Sat Oct 08, 2005 13:22 
 13   but don't you just think its a case of bad marriages?     elija & jeezabel    Sat Oct 08, 2005 17:04 
 14   If you could translate the above to English it would be great.     John O'Driscoll    Sat Oct 08, 2005 20:48 
 15   mr o driscoll     elijah and jeezebul    Sat Oct 08, 2005 21:47 
 16   Reply to elijah and jeezebul     Harry Rea    Sat Oct 08, 2005 23:24 
 17   well done Mr Rea.     jeezabel & elijah    Sat Oct 08, 2005 23:53 
 18   Now listen up you... jeezabel & elijah     Harry Rea    Sun Oct 09, 2005 20:32 
 19   Drown those who disagree with you?     Badman    Sun Oct 09, 2005 20:46 
 20   And besides     Shipsea    Sun Oct 09, 2005 21:01 
 21   That bad bad Badman     Harry Rea    Sun Oct 09, 2005 21:09 
 22   So you use racial scare stories as well as threats of mass murder.     Badman    Sun Oct 09, 2005 21:39 
 23   Mr Rea, its "mr & mrs Jeezebel & Elijah" if you please "keep it polite".     jeezebel & elijah    Sun Oct 09, 2005 21:42 
 24   Look who told the scariest story -That Bad Badman     Harry Rea    Sun Oct 09, 2005 22:14 
 25   Don't marry a capitalist     how the rich hate the poor    Sun Oct 09, 2005 23:03 
 26   where exactly does this "reputation of a charitable christian nation" come from?     freepress    Mon Oct 10, 2005 14:04 
 27   Robert Thomson & John Venables     Shipsea    Mon Oct 10, 2005 15:15 
 28   Let's get facts straight     Another feminist - also proud of it    Mon Oct 10, 2005 19:26 
 29   Fabulous bit of eloquence by Freepress there     JOD    Mon Oct 10, 2005 20:24 
 30   And thank you     John O'Driscoll    Mon Oct 10, 2005 20:41 
 31   Sorry let me correct that please.     JOD    Mon Oct 10, 2005 20:51 
 32   Why not a similar campaign in Ireland?     Harry Rea    Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:40 
 33   Reply to 'Another Feminist'     Webwatch    Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:51 
 34   No need to go to Wales to find murdered women     First feminist back again    Tue Oct 11, 2005 17:40 
 35   obvious     obvious    Tue Oct 11, 2005 18:29 
 36   Family most unsafe place for women and children     Mary C.    Tue Oct 11, 2005 19:22 
 37   Marriage: The Safest Place for Women and Children     Finton    Tue Oct 11, 2005 22:27 
 38   children     parent    Tue Oct 11, 2005 22:49 
 39   I mean no offence to 'Partners' but there is a difference!     Harry Rea    Tue Oct 11, 2005 23:58 


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