on 12/15 Pam Shapiro wrote:
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>When it came to academics and morals, parents had by far
>the greatest influence (I don't have the paper here, but it was highly
>sig. by chi-square analysis). The most interesting finding was the
>differential influence of mothers vs. fathers. Mothers had more
>influence than fathers in every category except academics. The
>influence of media was almost nonexistent.
>
> Moral of this story? Parents do have an influence on their kids'
> attitudes and behaviors--maybe they just need to talk more about
> the difficult stuff, like sex, drugs, and alcohol. Fathers may need to
> get more involved in the conversation!
>
> Yeah, it was small (n=50) and all the students were from a suburban
> relatively affluent school district, but it gave me hope.
>
But aren't humans nortoriously bad at judging what does and does not influence
their behavior?
Kirsten
Kirsten L. Rewey
Department of Psychology
St. Mary's University of Minnesota
700 Terrace Heights, Box 1464
Winona, Minnesota 55987
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