How Family Structure Leads to Academic Success

Numerous studies have found a correlation between stable, married-parent families and their kids’ education levels, as well as less trouble with the law or teen pregnancy. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

Commentary

In 1965, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote: “The role of the family in shaping character and ability is so pervasive as to be easily overlooked. The family is the basic social unit of American life; it is the basic socializing unit. By and large, adult conduct in society is learned as a child.”