Lori
09-15-2004, 04:43 PM
Mothers Who Work Outside Home Risk Shortening their Sons' Lives Study Shows
SCRANTON, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Population Research Institute of Penn State University has completed a study on mortality among US men. "The Long Arm of Childhood: The Influence of Early Life Social Conditions on Men's Mortality," has shown that men and boys whose mothers left the home to work have a shorter life expectancy. Data was collected between 1966 and 1990, a time in North American history that saw unprecedented numbers of married women, under the influence of feminism, go out to work instead of staying home to care for their families.
In the face of the 'baffling' persistence of socioeconomic disparity, despite expensive social welfare programmes, the study attempted to discover the more systemic problems that cause life-long poverty and a concomitant shortened lifespan. The study uses an approach that "encompasses the idea that adult mortality… is the long-term outcome of a range of childhood conditions and experiences, beginning as early as in utero, combined with the cumulative 'insults' experienced during adulthood." One of the 'insults' that seemed to surprise the study's authors was the correlation between early adult mortality and working motherhood.
The study's findings will not come as a surprise to those who advocate traditional family life however. One of the 'discoveries' was that an intact family made up of the biological parents of the child provides the most healthy environment and greatest chances of a long life. "Marital discord (weakens) an adult offspring's familial and social ties, lowering socioeconomic achievement, and diminishing psychological well-being." Furthermore, remarriage after divorce is cited as a negative factor in adult children's health and longevity. "Men who resided with their stepfathers and biological mothers who worked outside the home faced a mortality risk that was 1.46 times that of the reference category."
Click here to read the study (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/sep/04091407.html)
SCRANTON, September 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Population Research Institute of Penn State University has completed a study on mortality among US men. "The Long Arm of Childhood: The Influence of Early Life Social Conditions on Men's Mortality," has shown that men and boys whose mothers left the home to work have a shorter life expectancy. Data was collected between 1966 and 1990, a time in North American history that saw unprecedented numbers of married women, under the influence of feminism, go out to work instead of staying home to care for their families.
In the face of the 'baffling' persistence of socioeconomic disparity, despite expensive social welfare programmes, the study attempted to discover the more systemic problems that cause life-long poverty and a concomitant shortened lifespan. The study uses an approach that "encompasses the idea that adult mortality… is the long-term outcome of a range of childhood conditions and experiences, beginning as early as in utero, combined with the cumulative 'insults' experienced during adulthood." One of the 'insults' that seemed to surprise the study's authors was the correlation between early adult mortality and working motherhood.
The study's findings will not come as a surprise to those who advocate traditional family life however. One of the 'discoveries' was that an intact family made up of the biological parents of the child provides the most healthy environment and greatest chances of a long life. "Marital discord (weakens) an adult offspring's familial and social ties, lowering socioeconomic achievement, and diminishing psychological well-being." Furthermore, remarriage after divorce is cited as a negative factor in adult children's health and longevity. "Men who resided with their stepfathers and biological mothers who worked outside the home faced a mortality risk that was 1.46 times that of the reference category."
Click here to read the study (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/sep/04091407.html)