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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Teenagers, smoking, fathers, and race

Posted by Renee
Just saw this article regarding fathers ability to prevent smoking in teenagers. 'Communicative Fathers' Help Reduce Teenage Smoking from Science Daily While many fathers are present at birth, who may not be married to the mother we have to ask where is that father 15 years down the road? Is he a just a child support check? Is he seen every other weekend? How does someone have consistent communication with his child, when the father does not live under the same roof. Does facebook count for personal communication? Can one parent online to a teenager? Another study to note is the disparity in blacks and whites regarding lung cancer. Blacks suffer from lung cancer at a much higher rate then whites. Now with 70% of all children, who are black being born out of wedlock what are their chances that there will be a communicative father down the road in their own lives?
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  1. Google: use it.

    Blacks smoke less than whites.

    http://www.lungusa.org/about-us/our-impact/top-stories/african-americans-and-lung-cancer.html

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  2. Personal failure,

    Biology, figure it out.

    I got a gist of your personal blog, yeah I get it you're in favor of same-sex marriage. I've noted in several of my post, the positives of acknowledging relationships outside of marriage by law and more important by culture.

    I think the NPR piece was right on, it was a personal story and for an adult child it was important despite her loss of memory through age. I also think this entry is also relevant, even if blacks smoke less then whites we know fathers are important in many areas of a child's life.

    Really there is no argument for same-sex marriage, so what those in favor reduced to?

    Anonymous baseless name calling, falsely targeting people as bigots because what????

    You're upset, because you don't want to recognize the reality the man/woman marriage really isn't about homophobia, but what sex is really about. Sex is about reproduction and the caring and well being of offspring. We want a man to be equally accountable to his children and cooperative as a parent to the mother of his children.

    Deep down you know I'm right, despite my lack of perfect grammar.

    Take care,

    Renee Aste
    Lowell Massachusetts

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  3. Thanks for the link Personal Failure, I'm actually reading the PDF file where those stats were taking from. Much of the concerns regarding health-care in general are socio-economic issues also (i.e. single parent homes), which affect the African Community also. This includes fatherhood, as in President Obama's bill back in 07' regarding Healthy Families and Healthy Father which reduces domestic violence and increases marriage for stable home.

    One of the conclusions from the paper,

    "It is essential to collect better data on
    race, socioeconomic status and cultural barriers
    to care. However, most hospitals, providers and
    insurers do not routinely collect that information, nor are these data linked to quality measures or used for quality improvement. Among the many large-scale efforts to improve data collection:"

    If you have children, it is now routine for health care providers to know the household situation the child is in when evaluating the child's overall health.

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  4. Renee

    Dont expect any kind of substantive response from PF. He is more of a lurker who pops in an out, now and again to make snide remarks.

    I have never seen him stick around for substantive conversation.

    RThanks for the research directly above however... It is proving invluable on another project.

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  5. Fitz, You always have be a forward thinking person, or else those who want to distract will.

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