Oh, goody. The Heritage Foundation has a new family FACTS website

Take a gander. You will see all these fun FACTS how marriage is beneficial. (For one man and woman, natch.)

I assume that since marriage and family are paramount that the Heritage Foundation will be campaigning to outlaw divorce,hmmm?
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http://www.familyfacts.org/

DID YOU KNOW?

Young men who are high consumers of pornography are more likely to engage in anal sex, as well as have sexual relations with a friend (i.e. someone with whom they are not in a loving romantic relationship).

Individuals who have had an extramarital affair are 3.18 times more likely to have used Internet pornography than individuals who did not have affairs. (3.18!!)

For children entering child care, salivary cortisol (stress hormone) levels continued to increase by 75-100% in the first 60 minutes after separating from their mothers. Children who were securely attached to their mothers had significantly lower levels of salivary cortisol than their insecure peers as they adapted to child care, but higher fuss and cry levels during separation. (So, ladies, don't think about working in modern day America. It's not like you need the money or anything.)

When both husband and wife are frequent church goers, wives report greater appreciation from their husbands for their household labor. Wives of husbands who express strong belief in a LITERAL (emphasis mine) interpretation of the Bible feel significantly more appreciated for their household labor than other wives.(If that doesn't fill the void, nothing will.)

Adolescents prefer their parents as a source of sex education. (Personally, I couldn't wait for them to leave the house when I was 13, but I digress.)

Mothers who were White, had more years of education, and higher incomes were more sensitive in their interactions with their 3-year-old children than other mothers. (The three-year-olds loved playing with Maw's pointy white hat.)

Conservative Protestant fathers yell less at their children than mainline Protestant fathers, and active Protestant fathers of both groups yell less than their less active counterparts. (Yeah, they are real princes.)

In this study of Swedish high school students, the home environment was the most common place to consume pornography. (You're supposed to read it, not consume it, Lars!)

the daily crime page in my local paper filled with fine upstanding citizens being arrested for incest and spousal abuse and why the need for DNA and drug testing in this cosmically "christian" community.

I've consumed pornography. I guess that's why I got a speeding ticket in 1984 (my one run in with law.)

treat their wives better on a daily basis when the women recognize that they are, biblically and literally speaking, nothing but property? And the children behave better because "conservative" christian men are taught how to handle their daughters in preparation for selling them into slavery?

treated better. They are some of the most self-absorbed creatures you will ever find,
because they are having to continually sing their own praises to assure their own self-worth.
It's very sad and disturbing to see a couple interact this way.

What a load of horseshit.

and besides, where else are you supposed to consume porn, if not at home? At work? On the Subway? in the Capitol Building? in the church's basement? Vatican City? Boy Scout Jamboree?

Salivary cortisol levels increase in babies when they are put down for a nap, and when they have a tantrum. A general stress level measurement is useless but then again when have the heritage assholes cared about scientific rigor. I mean it's just facts, read your bible, it's better for you.

Also, of course conservative protestant fathers yell less, their exhausted from the beatings they give little Johnnie with a belt for thinking about touching himself or looking a little too closely at the bra ads in the Sears catalog.

I hate fucking fundies with a passion.

Leaving "race" out of it, haven't studies shown that people with higher education levels (and higher-paying careers, which seems to nullify the wife having a stronger LITERAL interpretation of the Bible - submit to your husband?????) tend to have less children than lower-educated?

It would seem that, then, if you have less kids, you can have more interaction (per kid) with a 3-year old than mothers with a litter . . . where you often have the older siblings running interference while the mother goes out and earns her meager living because of her lower education and lower incomes . . .

It boggles the mind . . . how they use stuff that would normally be unrelated to make their points . . .

And yet they scream about the "hollywoods" who have kids and can afford to do full-time mothering, saying "look at these bitches!"

First, they have an assumption made as to cause/effect. Like, kids who read porn are more likely to have anal sex and casual sex. Maybe kids who have kinkier sex and casual sex are more likely to be interested in porn? Same with use of porn and cheating. Maybe people who cheat are more likely to use porn, rather than porn causing people to cheat.

And, as to the anal sex stats, why should I care what sex acts people are engaging in? I DON'T CARE!

And are they saying only white, highly-educated, wealthy women should have kids? And of course they should't work . . .?

And conservative protestant fathers are better fathers? My agnostic husband never yells at our daughter. He is the most emotionally laid-back person I've ever known. I'm thinking they might have done this study at a protestant church.

And home is the most common place to do ANYTHING.

That is all I can say. Whom did they survey? Where did they get their info? Pathetic.

And a few rapists from the local jail.

"In a four-year study of boys with behavioral problems, those with consistently low cortisol levels began antisocial acts at a younger age, exhibited three times the number of aggressive symptoms, and were three times as likely to be singled out by their classmates as mean or combative as those who had higher or fluctuating cortisol concentrations. /snip



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000120073039.htm