Family Structure: How it affects religion and higher education
The primary focuses on research of the family structure are the effects it has on higher education and religion. Studies have shown that family structure plays a critical role in many aspects of life, such as the development of children as well as the physical and mental health of children. Using mainly works published since 2006, a review of the literature on the family structure and their effects of religiosity and higher education as well as religiosity and how it is different from race and gender. When I was younger, my mother and father got a divorce, and I always wondered if the divorce was a factor in determining some of the choices that I have made in my life. I did not …show more content…
Marriage rates have declined, and about twenty-five percent of children live with only one biological parent (Cid and Stokes 2013). Along with a new phenomenon of a rapid divorce, there have also been improvements to the Uruguayan education system (Cid and Stokes 2013). In 2006, the Continuous Household Survey of Uruguay (Cid and Stokes 2013) showed that being raised in a non-traditional family was significantly linked with the likelihood of dropping out and falling behind in school (Cid and Stokes 2013). Results showed that males tend to be more vulnerable to negative educational influences than females. Boys receive less attention from their mothers, and that may explain why they are more likely to drop out or fail out of school (Gauthier and Monna 2008). Non-traditional homes put more pressure on males to drop out of school and find a low wage job to help lighten the financial …show more content…
Molock and Barksdale (2013) examined the relationship between public religious behaviors, religious copying, and conduct problems among adolescents, and then looked at the differences in religiosity and religious coping across race and gender. Molock (2013) found that African American youth were more likely to utilize a religious coping style that values collaborative interactions and relationships. These values are compatible with the African American community places on collectivism (Goode, Jones, and Jackson 2011). Caucasian youth were more likely to endorse a religious coping style that is more internally driven, compatible with the value that mainstream Caucasian culture places on individualism, self-reliance, and autonomy (Hanson 2011). White religious groups generally display more racial conservatism than African American on measures of stratification ideology and the three policy issue (Taylor and Merino
The primary focuses on research of the family structure are the effects it has on higher education and religion. Studies have shown that family structure plays a critical role in many aspects of life, such as the development of children as well as the physical and mental health of children. Using mainly works published since 2006, a review of the literature on the family structure and their effects of religiosity and higher education as well as religiosity and how it is different from race and gender. When I was younger, my mother and father got a divorce, and I always wondered if the divorce was a factor in determining some of the choices that I have made in my life. I did not …show more content…
Marriage rates have declined, and about twenty-five percent of children live with only one biological parent (Cid and Stokes 2013). Along with a new phenomenon of a rapid divorce, there have also been improvements to the Uruguayan education system (Cid and Stokes 2013). In 2006, the Continuous Household Survey of Uruguay (Cid and Stokes 2013) showed that being raised in a non-traditional family was significantly linked with the likelihood of dropping out and falling behind in school (Cid and Stokes 2013). Results showed that males tend to be more vulnerable to negative educational influences than females. Boys receive less attention from their mothers, and that may explain why they are more likely to drop out or fail out of school (Gauthier and Monna 2008). Non-traditional homes put more pressure on males to drop out of school and find a low wage job to help lighten the financial …show more content…
Molock and Barksdale (2013) examined the relationship between public religious behaviors, religious copying, and conduct problems among adolescents, and then looked at the differences in religiosity and religious coping across race and gender. Molock (2013) found that African American youth were more likely to utilize a religious coping style that values collaborative interactions and relationships. These values are compatible with the African American community places on collectivism (Goode, Jones, and Jackson 2011). Caucasian youth were more likely to endorse a religious coping style that is more internally driven, compatible with the value that mainstream Caucasian culture places on individualism, self-reliance, and autonomy (Hanson 2011). White religious groups generally display more racial conservatism than African American on measures of stratification ideology and the three policy issue (Taylor and Merino