The evidence is pretty clear. Fathers in the home foster better outcomes for everyone -- kids and parents. The evidence doesn't change or have less potency due to the race of the fathers. To assume the race of a father matters undercuts universal principles of the human condition. I look forward to hearing more of your work.
* Ethnicity is ‘a way of labelling and grouping people that has been devised by society throughout long histories of social disaggregation’, which leads to placement on ‘a hierarchical scale’ (p 2). So, the only relevant factor for ethnic groups is that of an external and seemingly malignant society. From the start by definition it is ruled out that the internal characteristics of ethnic groups might have any significance.
This needs to be challenged... who has the right to place people on this hierarchical scale on the basis of skin colour? I know the answer will be: society does; it's (malignant) society that places people on this hierarchical scale. My response would be: well, that's funny because not so long ago (here in the UK at least) most ordinary people, or society, had agreed that we are all equal and not to be placed somewhere on a hierarchy on the basis of skin colour.
So, correct answer to the question of who has the right to place people on this hierarchical scale on the basis of skin colour? Sociologists do.
The evidence is pretty clear. Fathers in the home foster better outcomes for everyone -- kids and parents. The evidence doesn't change or have less potency due to the race of the fathers. To assume the race of a father matters undercuts universal principles of the human condition. I look forward to hearing more of your work.
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Very true.
We are keeping an eye out for an upcoming book by Melissa S. Kearney, 'The Two-Parent Privilege,' that discusses just this.
* Ethnicity is ‘a way of labelling and grouping people that has been devised by society throughout long histories of social disaggregation’, which leads to placement on ‘a hierarchical scale’ (p 2). So, the only relevant factor for ethnic groups is that of an external and seemingly malignant society. From the start by definition it is ruled out that the internal characteristics of ethnic groups might have any significance.
This needs to be challenged... who has the right to place people on this hierarchical scale on the basis of skin colour? I know the answer will be: society does; it's (malignant) society that places people on this hierarchical scale. My response would be: well, that's funny because not so long ago (here in the UK at least) most ordinary people, or society, had agreed that we are all equal and not to be placed somewhere on a hierarchy on the basis of skin colour.
So, correct answer to the question of who has the right to place people on this hierarchical scale on the basis of skin colour? Sociologists do.