Emil, Many similar “studies” have been published, so I’m not surprised. I just thought I’d take a closer look at the latest. Thanks for the illuminating quote from Don Campbell, whom I’d never heard of before.

Donald T. Campbell, the late eminent social research methodologist, early in his career commented that psychological ideas about rearing children were less helpful than traditional views. Campbell was not overtly religious, but he had the sense that what the ‘experts’ thought up was not particularly valuable. Here is the comment:

From Don Campbell [from E. S. Overman ed. Methodology and
Epistemology for Social Science: Selected Papers (of Donald T. Campbell,
pp.21-22)]
“…my early period in the Berkeley Institute of Child Welfare nursery
school had convinced me that the recipes by which psychiatrists and
psychologists were rearing their children were less adequate than
traditional ones, rather than better. My increasing understanding of what it
would take to be scientific about the important choices in life furthered a
double standard, in which I was committed to helping create a thoroughly
scientific social psychology but unwilling to jettison traditional wisdom
about how to live life and rear children.”

I don’t have the date, but it was probably in the late 50’s.

My bedroom is clutter with, well, books, classic lingerie, Richard Scarey tomes, really high heeled shoes and PlayMobil. Yikes, I live with the mother of my children…does that make me a conservative?

Well, actually, we just moved in a month ago and we are still sorting stuff out…I will admit to procrastination.