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Comment on Who needs marriage? by Does declining marriage explain rising suicide rates for old men, too? (Trick question.) | Family Inequality

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:37:39 +0000

[…] no sociologist is going to deny that married men usually have lower suicide rates—and I’ve written about it myself. But for older men, at least, that doesn’t seem to be driving the trend for the last several […]

Comment on Marriage is going down, so what does Kanye West have to do with it? by Ness Blackbird

Ness Blackbird — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:36:25 +0000

It strikes me that your analysis should consider the fact that marriage is already way down. So variations on who is marrying happens in a context, specifically, of people resisting a social trend. Maybe hip-hop listeners are, so to speak, more conventional — people choosing to “fit in” with the contemporary culture which expects them to remain single — at least in certain life circumstances.

Comment on Marriage is going down, so what does Kanye West have to do with it? by S. Michael Gaddis

S. Michael Gaddis — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:51:24 +0000

Philip, as always, an interesting analysis using the Google tools. I keep thinking about how we can use these tools in a better way, particularly when it comes to the tendency to cherry-pick results because of the way Google presents the information to us. I worry about the high correlation between certain demographic characteristics and the search results … similar to your #2 explanation at the bottom. Searches for “college application” are pretty good at predicting fall 1st time freshman enrollment. Searches for “college loan(s)” are not. These things keep me up at night…

Comment on Googling racism, votes for Obama, and population composition by Marriage is going down, so what does Kanye West have to do with it? | Family Inequality

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:12:57 +0000

[…] whites do more racist Google searches in states with larger black populations? Yes, fitting a longstanding pattern of racism flaring up […]

Comment on Past predictions (marriage dreams not quite true) by Marriage is going down, so what does Kanye West have to do with it? | Family Inequality

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:12:51 +0000

[…] religious, or attitudinal factors that are harder to assess. (I stress this is not about low Black marriage rates: note the population percentage Black has no effect once the other factors are […]

Comment on Single parents, crime and incarceration by Marriage is going down, so what does Kanye West have to do with it? | Family Inequality

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:12:47 +0000

[…] and cultural factors involved. These include the aging population, men’s declining fortunes, the incarceration of millions of poor men, the rise of secular ideology and the sexual […]

Comment on Be a man, a Morehouse Man — and treat your boyfriend right by Angie Hattery

Angie Hattery — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:38:38 +0000

Reblogged this on Angie Hattery.

Comment on The Connection Between Unemployment and Unmarried Parents by Nat

Nat — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:17:37 +0000

Also, education is not a static thing. Unmarried parents are statistically more likely to be young–17,18,19–ages when they realistically could not have finished high school or college yet. So at least part of the association between unmarried parenting and education may simply be due to the confounding factor of age. And although having a child at a young age may make it more difficult logistically to finish college, some women find that it gives them more motivation to finish college or vocational school.

Also, no discussion of “rational decisions” surrounding childbirth is complete without a discussion of the myriad ways women are prevented from accessing the supposedly legal service of abortion, and how financial privilege plays into that.

Comment on Be a man, a Morehouse Man — and treat your boyfriend right by Scott Rose

Scott Rose — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:46:52 +0000

Calling this study “flawed” does not accurately describe what occurred. The study design was booby-trapped with malice aforethought. Brad Wilcox — who understands how numbers apply to the study of tiny minorities — knew that by sampling the general population, without doing any targeted sampling for young adults actually raised by gay parents, Regnerus would dredge up nearly no people actually raised by gay parents, but a lot who had been in a hodgepodge of unstable family situations involving some parents who followed the break-up of their heterosexual unions with relationships with persons of the same gender. Documents had via Public Information Act requests to Regnerus’s UT show that Knowledge Networks itself told Regnerus that its Knowledge Panel alone would not allow him to survey enough young adults raised by gay parents. They told him that he would have to do targeted sampling. Nonetheless, even though Knowledge Networks itself says that its panel is not adequate to reach the tiny national minority of young adults raised by gay parents, Regnerus is deliberately misleading the public by saying that the Knowledge Network panel alone provides a scientist with a possibility to reach this tiny national minority. Editor James Wright is aware of this. It is unacceptable that a paper known to have been published without benefit of professional peer review remains in publication in a journal that claims to put submissions through peer review.

Comment on Be a man, a Morehouse Man — and treat your boyfriend right by Scott Rose

Scott Rose — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:17:56 +0000

Clearly, President Obama would be aware of the Regnerus hoax.

A group of sociologists recently sent letters to Wright and the SSR editorial board, explaining the reasons they think the Regnerus paper should be retracted. Wright blew them off — but then the Committee for Publication Ethics told a member of that group that COPE is investigating my complaint against Wright, that he is cooperating and will comply with their findings. COPE chair is Dr. Virginia Barbour.

I first filed my complaint with COPE in August of 2012, when I had documented proof that Witherspoon’s Brad Wilcox booby-trapped the study design. The fact that Wilcox and Regnerus met with Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton in August 2011 — before data collection had occurred — to discuss study public relations and media promotions speaks volumes.

I am fluent in German, Spanish, Italian and French and can read Portuguese, Dutch and all of the Scandinavian languages. Anti-gay hate groups are promulgating anti-gay hate speech in each of those languages on the basis of the Regnerus paper and the Marks paper and also the Schumm paper that Wright published without benefit of valid professional peer review.