Study: Religion is Good for Kids..Here ya go....?

Question

Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.
The conflict that arises when parents regularly argue over their faith at home, however, has the opposite effect.
http://www.livescience.com/health/070424_religion_kids.html
John Bartkowski, a Mississippi State University sociologist and his colleagues asked the parents and teachers of more than 16,000 kids, most of them first-graders, to rate how much self control they believed the kids had, how often they exhibited poor or unhappy behavior and how well they respected and worked with their peers.
The researchers compared these scores to how frequently the children’s parents said they attended worship services, talked about religion with their child and argued abut religion in the home.
The kids whose parents regularly attended religious services—
How many Kids admit having Atheists Parents?

Answer 1

I do agree with the survey.

Answer 2

Yes I totally agree with the survey..
Children with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children ...It carries a definite authenticity,
whatever the religion may be, the effect is there.

Answer 3

Perhaps the study was affected by the tendency of one group of parents to be better observers or more truthful in self-reporting...

Answer 4

Well of course they are. Threaten a kid with eternal hellfire damnation will pretty much make ANY kid get his act together. But then again, ANY kind of threat or action (belt, paddle, smacking, beating) will get a kids attention...doesn't mean its right to do it though.

Answer 5

So this proves religion, or are you sugesting that we just take a religious placebo?

Answer 6

Ah, now you see what happens when Christians try to do science.