03 APR 2015 by ideonexus

 Quantity of Time Spent with Children has No Impact on Out...

Does the amount of time children spend with their mothers matter for children’s behavioral, emotional, and academic outcomes? The results from ordinary least squares regression models for the child sample are shown in Table 2. There were no statistically significant associations between maternal time of either type and any child outcome. In contrast, social status resources, as measured by mother’s education, family income, and family structure, was related to some outcomes. Mother’s educatio...
Folksonomies: parenting
Folksonomies: parenting
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More important are the mother's education level and family financial status.

08 JUN 2012 by ideonexus

 Morals are Natural

It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.
Folksonomies: civilization
Folksonomies: civilization
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That's what I take from this quote, which talks about the normative nature of habits that appear when our sample size is large enough and those habits make civilization possible.