>Hmm. The quotes seem clear enough to me, but perhaps you need the
>context too.
I read the quotes in context. I have the book in front of me now.
>How would you interpret this finding that she talks about
>- that it is bad for kids to be in fatherless neighborhoods, but not
>fatherless homes?
Again, it is my understanding that her view is that you don't want to grow up in a
fatherless neighborhood because of what that signals about the genes of your peers and
the culture of your peers, not because your peers fathers are missing per se. -- Bill
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