Monday, December 23, 2013

Marriage is not the answer to child disadvantage - UL study

A study by researchers at the University of Limerick using the 'Growing Up in Ireland' data has found that the apparent benefits of marriage, in relation to child development, are not related to marriage per se but to the background characteristics of the parents.This is the key finding to emerge from the most detailed statistical study to-date of the effects of family structure on child development, which was published in Dublin by the Family Support Agency.

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