[Peace-discuss] Editorial in News-Gazette offers up the single parent as scapegoat

[Marti Wilkinson]

It's my understanding that the research on this suggests that the
socioeconomic status of the parent(s) is the best predictor of success. So
solving the problems with poverty and lack of equal opportunity for
minorities and women will go a lot further in addressing this issue. As a
side note Naperville Illinois happens to have its roots as a 'sundown' town.


Greater success with two-parent families Tuesday February 24, 2009

The continuation of the consent decree in Champaign Unit 4 schools will
never achieve what it is intended until minority children are raised in a
two-parent environment. I think this is true for minority children whether
they live in Champaign, Naperville, East St. Louis or Rockford.

Bill Cosby has tried to tell minorities that the two-parent family is the
only way to raise successful children. But as long as children are raised by
one parent, be they black, white, yellow or red, they will not be great
achievers academically. I am sure everyone knows someone who makes this last
statement false, but I wish someone in the educational field would look at
the family unit that all the underachievers and discipline problem children
in our schools come from.

I am sure a study such as this would open some eyes but then educators
wouldn't be able to do anything about the results until families started
raising children – two parents at a time.

ALLAN BOEHM

Champaign
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