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Well-adjusted children and functional marriages go together. But are the kids thriving because the parents’ marriage works, or does the marriage work for the same reasons that the kids are thriving?
This is what social scientists call “selection effect”, and it is always lurking, threatening to confound seemingly clear-cut results. Unfortunately, in studies about marriage, there’s no definite answer.
This is the difficult territory that the Institute for Family Studies has devoted itself to mapping out. And its latest publication, The Cohabitation Go-Round, does offer some hints about whether we can write off all the benefits of marriage
This is what social scientists call “selection effect”, and it is always lurking, threatening to confound seemingly clear-cut results. Unfortunately, in studies about marriage, there’s no definite answer.
This is the difficult territory that the Institute for Family Studies has devoted itself to mapping out. And its latest publication, The Cohabitation Go-Round, does offer some hints about whether we can write off all the benefits of marriage
