Family Facts: Social Science Research on Family, Society & Religion
| Spending
quality time with dad may strengthen a child’s performance in school,
according to a study in the Journal of Marriage and Family that
examined over 1,000 father-child relationships. Children whose fathers spent leisure time with them, shared meals with them, helped with homework or reading, and engaged them in other activities in the home earned better grades in school, on average, than children whose fathers spent less time with them. Read this finding The Heritage Foundation's familyfacts.org catalogs social science findings on the family, society and religion gleaned from peer-reviewed journals, books and government surveys. Serving policymakers, journalists, scholars and the general public, familyfacts.org makes social science research easily accessible to the non-specialist. |
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Findings on parent-child relationships and school success:
 First-graders who performed well in school tended to have significant positive interaction with their mothers...(more) Youths who considered their fathers to be role models had, on average, higher academic achievement than youths who did not consider their fathers to be role models...(more) Family Research Experts:
Pat Fagan William H. G. FitzGerald Research Fellow in Family and Cultural Issues Christine Kim Policy Analyst, Domestic Policy Studies Jennifer Marshall Director, Domestic Policy Studies For Interviews call Media Relations at (202) 675-1761 |
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Events:Religious Practice and Civic Life: What the Research Says October 4, 2007 |