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How Family Structure Leads to Academic Success

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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
Timothy S. Goeglein
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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.”
Timothy S. Goeglein
Timothy S. Goeglein
Author
Timothy S. Goeglein is vice president of external and government relations at Focus on the Family in Washington, D.C., and author of the new book “Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream.”