[EliRivers]

Is that correlation or causation? I could imagine that the kind of people who make sensible choices about who to marry and are able to hold a marriage together for a long period of time would also happen to be the kind of people who could raise children adequately.

[black_puppydog]

I could imagine many things.

Like for example being discriminated against throughout your life, first because your parents are the gay weirdos at the corner, and then later because with all your liberal, non-conformist ideas you always strike the wrong chords with people.

Wild imagination, I know.

[notch656a]

Regardless of whether it is correlation or causation it seems to be an objective observation.

I would also wager having a "better" child of the sort that would have good outcomes also helps hold families together better. If you have a kid that just is downright "broken" somehow in a way that places unusual demands from the parents, it often harms the marriage. That is, perhaps it is also the case the kind of children that have better outcomes tend to place less unusual demands on their parents, allowing the family to continue to bond. A particular violent, psychologically psychopathic child that might be measured as having bad outcomes might also drive the parents apart as family life becomes unbearable.

[emaginniss]

Mom always said that I was the reason she drank