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To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics; Law Religion
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Cc: Volokh, Eugene
Subject: Re: A judge preferring the more religious parent
Good question. We've been over this before
Good question. We've been over this before in other contexts. First of all --
is it really the case that there's empirical evidence (as opposed to a judicial
assumption based on anecdote) that a religious upbringing is more likely to
keep a child out of trouble? Religious cultures, after
Let me just add to what Eugene says here. In numerous cases I've found over
the last few weeks, a judge has been quite blatant about using such
anecdotal data to justify preferring religion to non-religion. In one case
the judge said:
And I was a little bit distraught in finding that there was no
Just on Marty's first point -- and this might be off-list material:
there is abundant evidence that religion has a positive influence on
the family and the social order. Though I do only some work in this
area, I have never seen an empirical study that suggests otherwise (if
others have I'd be
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To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: A judge preferring the more religious parent
Just on Marty's first point -- and this might be off-list material: there is
abundant evidence that religion has a positive influence on the family and the
social order. Though I do only
