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Boys raised by traditional families 'do better at school'
Submitted by Broadsword on Wed, 2012-01-04 03:51
Article here. Excerpt:
'In a major study, researchers said family structures had a much more significant effect on boys’ early education than school type or even the gender of teachers. It found that boys were much more likely to misbehave, be excluded from school and go on to achieve low grades after rebelling against “emotionally distant” parents.
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The pattern is particularly marked in single-parent families where mothers “invest disproportionately less in their sons or feel less warm toward them” than daughters.
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Researchers in the United States tested various theories to explain bad behaviour and low standards among boys and concluded that “home-based” influences played a much bigger part than biological differences, the style of early education, teacher gender or peer pressure.
“Boys’ likelihood to ‘act out’ is sharply reduced when faced with larger and better parental inputs,” said the study.
“As these parental inputs are typically higher and of better quality in intact families, this largely contributes to why boys with single mothers are so much more disruptive and eventually face school suspension.”'
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widely unacknowledged cause and effect
From the article:
“It is possible that single mothers invest disproportionately less in their sons, or feel less warm toward them,” said the study. “Indeed, we show that single mothers seem relatively more emotionally distant from their sons and are also more likely to have reported spanking their sons.”
In my own personal experience, single mothers do treat their sons worse than they treat their daughters, and this of course has a very significant effect on the boys, especially when the boys have only one parent on the scene. That this should be so, when the single mothers so often resent males, in fact have been trained by our feminist-dominated culture to hate males, is no surprise. But it is heartening that somebody is even willing to talk about this matter.