Fundie study (paid for by the US DOJ): Christianity makes men better husbands, fathers

from the American Family Association's One News Now:



Study: Christianity makes men better husbands, fathers
- OneNewsNow - 6/30/2008 8:30:00 AM

VIRGINIA - In a research brief this month, Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia, analyzed three national studies in order to discover if "there is any evidence that religion is playing a role in encouraging a strong family orientation among contemporary American men?" His research led him to conclude that men who regularly attend Christian services are engaged in happier and stronger marriages and are more involved in the lives of their children than men who do not.

"Seventy percent of husbands who attend church regularly report they are 'very happy' in their marriages, compared to 59 percent of husbands who rarely or never attend church," explained Wilcox, who also said that the studies indicated that wives experienced more marital happiness when their husbands attended regular religious services. This is likely one significant reason why the studies showed that married couples who attended regular Christian services were approximately 35 percent less likely to divorce then those couples who did not.

Wilcox's research also looked at the effect religion has on the relationships between fathers and their children. Fathers who attended regular Christian services spent an average of two more hours a week engaged in youth-activities with their children than fathers who did not attend regular services. Christian fathers also spent more one-on-one time with their children and were 65 percent more likely to hug and praise their children.

The studies also found that children born inside of wedlock had much more "involved, affectionate, and consistent relationships" with their fathers. This is an important statistic given Wilcox's findings that church-attending men are more likely to have children inside of wedlock then non-church-going men.

Wilcox concluded his research brief by strongly advocating the positive effects that religion has on husbands and fathers: "This brief provides an array of evidence indicating that religion is an answer to the male problematic - that is, the tendency of fathers to become detached, emotionally or physically, from their children and the mothers of their children. I find that fathers who are religious, and who have partners who are religious, are - on average - more likely to be happily married, to be engaged and affectionate parents, and to get and stay married to the mothers of their children."

The research report comes from The Center for Marriage and Families, which is based at the Institute for American Values, and was commissioned by the National Fatherhood Initiative under a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=159804

...'a woman should submit to her husband'...

BULLSHIT.

Sunday from the pulpit?

I bet you would see a correlation between following a wisdom tradition and good parenting.

A couple that plays together, stays together.

You see, he's an ATHEIST. And he's quite firm. He just doesn't subscribe to the "invisible sky being" nonsense AT ALL (he's a scientist - a nuclear pharmacist, for crying out loud). He also happens to be a really great husband and father and BIL and son and all-around normal, healthy, well-adjusted good citizen.

I guess maybe he's just been faking and there's an inner psychopathic murderer and wife/child beater I don't know about.......

Does he dispense radioactive tracers for use in X-ray diagnostic tests?

Or did you mean physicist?

:shrug:

Just wondering.

27 years of being married to my sister I have never gotten to go see, lol - they live across the country from me. He is a pharmacist (so is my sister) and has his M.S. in Nuclear Pharmacy. So you guessed it exactly with your first question and I couldn't have explained it any better.

I tell people he glows in the dark.

:puke:

It brings to mind the stories about all those fundies who have been found having sex with children and/or cheating on their wives with prostitutes or other men...YEAH. Fine example of "family values".

My husband has been a damned good father to our kids and I can count on all my fingers the number of times he has set foot in a church.

It's CHARACTER, not RELIGION.

It is a well established that in response to surveys, peopple will exagerate behavior seen as positive (how often they attend church, how much they donate to charity, how much time they spend with children) and understate behaviors seen as negative (how much they drink, smoke, etc).

Example:
http://ffrf.org/fttoday/back/survey.html

Numerous studies have proven that the group most likely to divorce is devout Southern Baptist churchgoers. They also claim that the group LEAST likely to divorce is atheists from the Northeast.

Come on, does anyone believe this shit? A guy could have three mistresses and an appointment tomorrow morning with a divorce lawyer to start the process of trading in the wife for a prettier one...and say "yes, I am completely happy in my marriage."

Remember though - this is membership, not attendance (which as I noted earlier, tends to be greatly exagerated):

"http://www.legalzoom.com/legal-articles//article13573.html"

"At 29 percent, Baptists have the highest divorce rate of any Christian denomination. Only non-denominational Christians have a higher divorce rate among Christian groups, with 34 percent divorced. Among Christians who describe themselves as born-again, the divorce rate is 29 percent. Only 21 percent of Lutherans have been through a divorce. The Jewish divorce rate is 30 percent, while divorce among atheists and agnostics is relatively uncommon: 21 percent."

And then there's this oddity:

"cities with major league baseball teams have 28-percent lower average divorce rates."

So, I assume that if MLB is a religion, that may be an exception.

:P

I dont take nothing serious from american family association seriously.